Christine Hancock was the General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, 1989-2001 Overview The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is a membership organisation with over 370,000 nurse members in the United Kingdom. ...

She attended Newstead Wood School for Girls, 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 coronary care unit doing advanced research. She undertook a degree at the London School of Economics and also qualified as a midwife and mental health nursing. Newstead Wood School for Girls and Newstead Wood School for Girls is a selective girls secondary school in Avebury Road, Orpington, England. ... Kings College Hospital, Ruskin Wing Kings College Hospital first opened in 1840 close to Lincolns Inn Fields and within two years was treating 1290 inpatients in 120 beds. ... London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ... A coronary care unit (CCU) is a hospital ward specialised in the care of patients with heart attacks, unstable angina and (in practice) various other cardiac conditions that require continuous monitoring and treatment. ... The London School of Economics and Political Science, often referred to as the London School of Economics or simply the LSE, is a specialist university, located on Houghton Street in Central London, off the Aldwych and next to the Royal Courts of Justice. ... Midwifery is a blanket term used to describe a number of different types of health practitioners, other than doctors, who provide prenatal care to expecting mothers, attend the birth of the infant and provide postnatal care to the mother and infant. ... Mental health is a concept that refers to a human individuals emotional and psychological well-being. ...

In 1985 she was appointed Chief Executive of Waltham Forest Health Authority in north-east London.

She was elected as the 24th President of the International Council of Nurses in 2001. The International Council of Nurses (ICN) is a federation of more than 120 national nurses associations. ...