Squad Saved Many Lives and I Was Proud to Be a Part of It

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Retired nurses across Derbyshire are being invited to help a project being run as part of the year-long commemoration of the death in 1910 of the country's most famous carer, Florence Nightingale. It is being co-ordinated by the organisation Living Derby which would love to hear from readers about their time in the profession and see their photos. Retired nurse Mary Payne, of Littleover, shares a cherished story.

COMPARED to our state-ofthe-art health service in 2010, accident and emergency in the early 1970s looked like it was something out of a Heath Robinson cartoon.

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Squad Saved Many Lives and I Was Proud to Be a Part of It

Ambulances back then were very basic, not even equipped to administer a local anaesthetic, and hospitals did not have thei...

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