Bassong's tribute to 33-yearold Neil - stricter than a
hospital matron, more fiery than a steam train's boiler - spoke volumes for a Scot who comes from Belshill, the Lanarkshire town where Sir Matt Busby was born.
Hospital matron Elsie Colebrook is shown third right with others including Brigadier Claude Fairweather, chairman of the hospital management committee (right), standing next to Alderman Mrs Louise Burton.
Hospital matron's son Dominic Pullen, 21, assaulted two men in a row over a queue for the toilets in Glam Bar, Cardiff, and had previously been convicted of an offence at the city's Oceana club.
Hospital matron Carol Atkin put leaflets out asking for volunteers last year after attending an inspiring conference.
When
hospital matron Kate Prevc, a former pupil at Cardinal Newman Catholic School, needed a video about hand washing she came up with the idea of asking the media club at her old school.
The 25th New Zealand recipient of the International Red Cross Committee's Florence Nightingale Medal, Andrew Cameron, and the
hospital matron who first hired him 35 years ago, Vera Ellen, were reunited at Government House in Wellington last month, where the official award ceremony was held.
"Come on, you won't melt!" she would announce in the tones of an old-fashioned
hospital matron, adding that the dog needed his exercise whatever the weather might throw at us.
1986 and top, during her days as a
hospital matron in 1965.
Jones, the
hospital matron in St Asaph, had been close to Denzil's widow in the 1960s, I searched for Lucy's Will, and found she had left some papers to Flintshire Archives.
Seen as a vocation rather than a profession, nursing was based on the pillars of obedience, service and hard work--principles strongly enforced by a rigid hierarchical structure headed by the formidable
hospital matron.
Sick health service READING about the state of the Health Service makes me wish they would bring back the
hospital matron, auxiliary staff medical superintendent and the cleaners.
She couldn't believe it when Spire Yale
Hospital Matron Linda Jones called her into her office to deliver the good news.