All stories relating to the NHS 70th birthday.
A LONG-serving NHS therapist has been speaking of her love for the service after 46 years. Carole Richardson, 63, who works as an Occupational Health Senior Counsellor for Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, has no plans to leave the NHS either. Carole, originally from Wigan, started her career as a nursery nurse in a… Continue Reading Carole still loves the NHS after 46 years of service – #NHS70
POULTON-based stand-up comic, Mick Miller, is supporting the NHS in its 70th year. Mick, who appeared in ITV’s Last Laugh in Vegas last night, has praised the national institution as being the envy of the world. He said: “My family have needed to use the NHS at certain points in our lives and it is… Continue Reading Last Laugh in Vegas star ‘stands up’ for the NHS – #NHS70
LEGENDARY comic and actor, Bobby Ball, has been telling of his support for the NHS ahead of a new TV appearance. Bobby, one half of comedy duo Cannon and Ball who tonight stars in a new ITV show Last Laugh in Vegas, has described the NHS as ‘fantastic’. He said: “My wife Yvonne and I… Continue Reading Last Laugh in Vegas star thinks #NHS70 is ‘Rock On’
Fifty years after making toy Sootys for manufacturer Chad Valley, a Blackpool hospital seamstress has made a special outfit for the original famous bear. Seamstress Denise Stevens, 65, from Poulton, got a job straight from school making toy Sooty bears. And, in a quirk of fate, 50 years later, Denise, who works at Blackpool Victoria… Continue Reading Sooty memories flood back for seamstress
BLACKPOOL Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has got a special am’bear’ssador! Sooty, Blackpool’s famous TV bear, turns 70 this year and he has taken up the special role to celebrate the National Health Service which is also set for its 70th birthday celebrations. Sooty has recently spent time at the hospital, meeting staff and children,… Continue Reading Blackpool Victoria Hospital celebrate with special new am‘bear’ssador Sooty
On July 5, 1948, health secretary Aneurin Bevan launched the NHS at Park Hospital in Manchester (today known as Trafford General Hospital). It was the climax of a hugely ambitious plan to bring good healthcare to all. For the first time, hospitals, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, opticians and dentists are brought together under one umbrella… Continue Reading We need YOU to help celebrate NHS70