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Daniel Allen Freelance journalist

Modern matron - another piece of vacuous electioneering?

Yaba daba doo. Matron’s back. Let's all celebrate with a sweet sherry and a curtsey before the consultant. And while we're about it, well dust off a few other popular nursing icons, like the cycling district nurse and the buxom siren in a too-tight dress, and undo three decades of burgeoning professionalism by replacing Beverly Malone with Barbara Windsor.

Nursing Standard. 15, 32, 21-21. doi: 10.7748/ns.15.32.21.s35

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