In the blood

Liz Austin joined the NHS as a junior administrative clerk in 1948. Aged 15, she had flirted briefly with the idea of becoming an almoner (a medical social worker attached to a hospital), but her family could not afford to pay for the training. She joined the health service, thinking ...

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