Staff Nurse Sally Starling and Deputy Sister Suzanne Pyke serve up cakes to celebrate International Nurses Day and Florence Nightingale's birthday at Colchester General Hospital on Tuesday, May 12.
Staff at Colchester General Hospital celebrated International Nurses Day with a fundraising event.
The day, which marks Florence Nightingale’s birth, was commemorated yesterday with a cake sale and tombola in outpatients in aid of the Colchester Hospital Charity.
As well as the fundraising stall a number of nursing staff took part in a conference at the Weston Homes Community Stadium launching Caring With Pride, the hospital trust’s nursing and midwifery strategy for the next three years.
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