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Nursing Standard's Nurses of the Millennium... this week Richard Wells
Richard Wells was a fierce patient advocate both at home and abroad, as Tom Snee recalls
Oncology
Cancer and AIDS care dominated Richard's life and he used the RCN as the catalyst for both. He arrived at the Royal Marsden Hospital in 1977 - a centre of excellence perfectly suited to his own philosophy, helping him to promote nursing as integral in the care of people with cancer. In 1981, having been awarded a Florence Nightingale fellowship to study in America, he was fired with enthusiasm to launch himself into a role which was tailor made for him as teacher, lecturer and writer.
By the mid 1980s, Richard's name was synonymous with oncology He became the first adviser in the...