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She retired from practising medicine in 1992, but played a role in transforming the British Paediatric Association into the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, to take over responsibility for training and standards for paediatricians that had previously been under the control of the Royal College of Physicians.

She is commemorated in the coat of arms of the new College, in which she is a supporter holding a staff of Aesculapius entwined with a double helix rather than the traditional snake.

The other supporter is Thomas Phaire, whose Boke of Chyldren from 1545 was the first book on paediatrics in English ; the crest is a baby, taken from the arms of the Foundling Hospital in Coram's Fields.