Christine Hancock (born 12 February 1943) was the General Secretary of the

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from 1989 to 2001. She attended Orpington Girls Grammar School (now Newstead Wood School), and then began her nursing career at King's College Hospital in London. After various clinical nursing posts she became a ward sister or head nurse at the National Heart Hospital in London in a cardiac and coronary care unit doing advanced research. She graduated from the

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and also worked as a midwife and a mental health nurse. A career in nursing management led to her becoming Chief Executive of the NHS in Waltham Forest in north-east London. In 1989 she began a twelve-year period as General Secretary/Chief Executive of the Royal College of Nursing www.rcn.org.uk She was elected unopposed as the 24th President of the

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in 2001. In 2009, she established C3 Collaborating for Health, a London-based charity with a global vision of stemming the epidemic of

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through prevention. She was a governor of

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from 2006 to 2015 and from 2007 to 2017 was a Trustee of the House of St Barnabas, a London charity helping homeless people get work. www.hosb.org.uk

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hancock, Christine 1943 births Place of birth missing (living people) Living people Alumni of the London School of Economics British nursing administrators General secretaries of the Royal College of Nursing Nurses from London People educated at Newstead Wood School