NHS is its people and everyone has their own life story. This is Gary's: I was born in Croydon 1962. My father was a gardener and my mother a prostitute. I remember being really small and my dad getting upset because my mother was saying good bye to him and to us.“Don’t upset the children!” he said.“I was just telling them a story of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck!” she answered, but it was a …
Trudy – Healthcare assistant
People – The life behind the uniform. NHS is its people and everyone has their own life story and unique reason for joining. NHS is full of staff. Many of them well-meaning, some hardworking and a few with skills of the kind that only comes with experience from life. Those you get from having been there, fought and gone through. Qualities that can’t easily be assessed or measured. That …
Maria – Nurse
People - The life behind the uniform. NHS is its people and everyone has their own life story and unique reason for joining. The Italians have been heading to Britain for years. Sensing opportunity and eager to work, they came in large numbers after the Second World War, settled in Bedford, Glasgow and London to work in industries, catering and agriculture. I’ve met them as patients in …
Rodney – Volunteer
People – The life behind the uniform. NHS is its people and everyone has their own life story and unique reason for joining. First one out in this new (as from March 2019) section of the website is Rodney. He works as a volunteer once a week on a ward in a hospital in south London. I’m Rodney and I grew up in a small rural town of Nebraska, America. It was a small farming community of five or …
