‘We helped to build the NHS’ Nurses remember experiences in UK hospitals after responding to calls from the ‘mother country’ by LeahMahon_
VITAL ROLE: Jamaican nurses arriving at Westminster Abbey for the Jamaican independence thanksgiving service in August 1962
“I knew I wanted to be a nurse. In fact, my father used to encourage me with that idea, because he used to say nursing is such a wonderful profession,” she tells. “I liked nursing people; when my father was ill I used to look after him before I left her home. And so, it was something that was within me.”
Sherlene Rudder’s arrival in Britain to help amid the post-war effort was similar. Growing up in Barbados, she stayed with her grandparents once her mother and father travelled to Britain in the 1950s. She said: “I was left in the sluice which was cleaning the bedpans and I pointed it out to the person in charge of the ward at the time.”
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