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How to be a pioneer in your chosen field
CAROL HAIGH, professor of nursing at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Research Institute for Health and Social Change, has more than 30 years’ experience of working in healthcare settings.
Carol Haigh
Posted 27 March 2014
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