Published: 04/08/2005, Volume II5, No. 5967 Page 9

Health secretary Patricia Hewitt went 'undercover' for a taste of life as a healthcare assistant. Ms Hewitt (second left) worked with midwifery HCA Layla Rumble (left) and consultant midwife Yana Richens at Elizabeth Garrett Hospital, part of University College London Hospitals foundation trust, whose chief executive, Robert Naylor, is also pictured.

Ms Hewitt told HSJ in June that she wanted to 'put on scrubs and shadow somebody' without the usual ministerial fanfare.

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