Former director of public health Calderdale Health Authority (b Devonport 1935; q Edinburgh 1959; DPH), died from a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm on 9 August 2003.
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Sam's experience of organising community clinical and environmental health services matured in posts in Fife, Yorkshire, and finally Calderdale. He survived three reorganisations of the NHS. In the major 1974 reorganisation he became area medical officer to the new Calderdale Health Authority and remained in that role, with different titles, retiring at the 1993 reorganisation and the authority's demise. He saw and presided over many technological and organisational changes in primary and secondary care, and strove to develop links with local communities so that the organisation was not remote from them. He leaves a wife, Margaret, and two children.
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