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A message from Director General, Tracey Lloyd
I hope that you have found the history of our Association interesting. 100 years is a very long time and, as you will have seen, a great many important issues have been tackled by a great many people.
The Association, in all its forms has in uenced, supported and worked with hundreds of companies, organisations and government bodies, many thousand employees and millions of people in need of advice and protection.
For anyone who asks the question, what does a Trade Association do, then this gives them a very good idea. Of course, it mostly does what its members wants it to do and there are some excellent examples of how the Association has, over the years, helped to organise members and produce high pro le, highly effective campaigns.
The world is a very different place to the one where a handful of people got together in 1917 to discuss the possibility of forming an Association. However, something that never changes is the value that people put on the huge bene ts of working together and working towards a common cause.
A considerable number of people have given up hours of their time to do superb work for the Association since those early days and they deserve full credit for what is, today, a very strong Trade Association that represents the very best of the British healthcare industry.
100 years is indeed a very long time, but maybe it’s actually just the start!
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