Health workers including a West Midlands nurse described how they were “honoured” to play a role in the Queen’s funeral today.
Margaret Keenan, 90, is the first patient in the United Kingdom to receive the Pfizer/BioNtech covid-19 in the West Midlands, administered by nurse May Parsons.
Among them was May Parsons, the nurse from the West Midlands who delivered the first ever Covid-19 jab outside of a clinical trial. Ms Parsons, along with frontline workers from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard, accepted the award on behalf of the institution at a small ceremony at Windsor Castle.
"She was telling us not to look so glum in the photos. In between the shots she said: ‘Don’t look so miserable!’ It was such a special time.”
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