Carol
English was employed by the Health Visitors’ Association in November 1990 to work in
its Labour Relations department.She arrived to discover that the HVA was in the throes of
a merger with MSF and within eight months was seconded for a 12 month period to work for
the newly elected General Secretary (designate) of MSF, Roger Lyons.
Following the secondment she returned to the
Labour Relations department of the HVA but soon took up the post of administrator to the
Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists and the Medical Practitioners’ Union. Carol became the National Secretary of the MPU in
1994 and in 1997 took on the newly merged College of Health Care Chaplains, and, most
recently, SHASTD.
Carol sees the current challenges for SHASTD to be
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