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Patricia Marquis, the Executive Director of the Royal College of Nursing in England is quite obviously an intelligent, personable and compassionate individual with the requisite element of corporate steel required to reach the higher echelons of large organisation. At times today she was at a loss to answer some of the questions being put to her by Sandie Peggie’s barrister, Naomi Cunningham. Not because the questions were particularly complicated, but when combined with the evidence, Marquis was forced to confront a period of time when a lot of people in civil society – particularly those in the public sector –…