Aimee Carroll, a student HCA at Fairfield General Hospital in Bury, has been chosen as the first ambassador of Manchester Children’s Burns Foundation – a new charity set up last year.
Ms Carroll, who is in the first of a two-year multi-professional cadet course at the hospital and wants to one-day specialise in paediatric burns nursing, suffered 80% scolds as a young child and needed regular skin grafts through much of her life.
‘I hope that I will be going the full circle – from suffering with scalds to then working in that particular field of nursing,’ she said.
Army nurses Caroline Storm and her sister Rachel will taking part in the Bupa Great North run in aid of breast cancer research.
A nurse and amateur stuntman has broken the world record for running while on fire.
England rugby captain Steve Borthwick visited nurses at London’s Northwick Park Hospital last month to help raise funds for the hospital’s haematology unit.