Anne: “Life begins at 60 for the NHS”

Jean Burden and Jane Cadogan who work in the NHS in Swindon helped Anne celebrate 60 years of the NHS this week in Parliament (see photo attached)

Anne congratulated them on their long service to the NHS by taking them for tea in Parliament.

Anne said: “NHS workers are perhaps the most committed and hard working in Swindon and we owe them a lot – Jean and Jane are two fine examples and it was a real honour to be congratulating them.”

Jean Burden worked from 1950 -59 and then from 1971 continuously and is still on bank and Jane Cadogan 25 yrs service for the PCT retiring soon.

Also attached: Copy of the original NHS leaflet.

Additional Info

Since 1997, Labour’s investment in the NHS has trebled to £100 billion. This has paid for 38,000 more doctors, 80,000 more nurses, over a hundred new hospitals, new community health centres and the shortest waiting times since records began.

Labour is extending GP opening hours so that most GP practices will be open for at least one weekend or evening session a week by next year.

Labour is opening over 100 new GP practices in the areas where they’re most needed, along with 152 new GP-led health centres across the country to be open 8am-8pm, seven days a week.

By the end of this year almost nobody will have to wait more than 18 weeks for hospital treatment – and most waits are already shorter than this.

All hospitals have been deep cleaned and over 5,000 matrons are helping in the fight against MRSA. By March 2009 every non-emergency patient will be screened for MRSA.

To help beat heart disease, we will make sure everyone aged between 40 and 74 is offered access to free health checks on the NHS from 2009, helping to save thousands of lives.

By the end of 2010, an additional 500,000 women will be screened for breast cancer and two million men and women will be screened for bowel cancer, and this year we will offer teenage girls the opportunity to be vaccinated against cervical cancer.

NHS Leaflet 1948