From Jamaica to Basingstoke: nursing in the 60s
Jean Holmes-Morris was just a teenager when she left her family in Jamaica to come to Berkshire in the 1960s. She saw an advert in her local paper with opportunities to train as a nurse in the UK.
She became one of only a few black nurses at the time, working on the wards at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading and other local hospitals. She later retrained to teach nursing and only retired in 2019, at the age of 78.
麻豆官网首页入口 Radio Berkshire's Sarah Walker speaks to Jean about coming to Berkshire and some of the challenges she faced during her decades of work.
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