Christine Hancock (born 12 February 1943)[1] was the General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing from 1989 to 2001.
She graduated from the London School of Economics 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.
[2] In 2009, she established C3 Collaborating for Health, a London-based charity with a global vision of stemming the epidemic of chronic disease through prevention.
[3] She was a governor of De Montfort University in Leicester 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.