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Passionate about politics

01 February 2002

Learning Disability Practice

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Last summer’s announcement that Beverly Malone was the Royal College of Nursing’s new general secretary sparked a controversy that spilled out beyond the nursing...

Vital Sines

01 November 1999

Learning Disability Practice

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After establishing his academic and administrative credentials in Northern Ireland over the past decade, David Sines returned to the mainland last summer looking...

Beacock’s progress

01 July 1999

Learning Disability Practice

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A telling observation about John Major, our all but forgotten ex-prime minister, is that he is a rare example of man who in his youth ran away from the circus - one...

Ambitious agenda

01 October 2008

Learning Disability Practice

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By the time many ambitious people reach their late fifties, they have taken their foot off the pedal marked ‘career progression’ and are making concrete plans for...

Relating anthropology to care

01 April 2003

Cancer Nursing Practice

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‘When I first started as a nurse in the late seventies, we used to go around the general surgical ward with the sister, and when we came to a patient with cancer,...

Complementing cancer treatment

01 March 2003

Cancer Nursing Practice

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If Grace Adamson’s partner hadn't developed bone cancer back in the 1970s, she would probably still be working as a surgical nurse in a Melbourne veterinary...

The path to becoming president

01 December 2002

Cancer Nursing Practice

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Sylvia Denton, the Royal College of Nursing’s (RCN) first nurse in clinical practice to be elected President for over two decades, is absolutely clear on the fact...

Looking to the future

01 February 2003

Cancer Nursing Practice

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It sounds like a cliché, but the description couldn’t be more sincere: Annie Sullivan is at the forefront of advanced nursing practice, and as the lead clinician of...

Keep on running

01 June 2006

Mental Health Practice

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Political commentators have been telling us for months that prime minister Tony Blair is so obsessed with trying to ensure he enjoys a favourable place in the...

Leader of the pack

01 November 2006

Mental Health Practice

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Though I have never seen him engaged in sport, I am sure that, as a cricket and rugby enthusiast, Peter Carter is adept, when necessary, at playing the ball with a...