This is the second of a series of three articles which won the Alison Bell Writer's Award this year. Maureen Dyke won second prize for this article, which looks at nurses’ knowledge and appreciation of the dangers of the various hepatitis infections. The Writer's Award is sponsored by NATN and Regent Medical.
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