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As top health officials are told to get stuck in, England's chief nurse volunteers at a summer camp for sick children.
Not all her forerunners as England's chief nursing officer would have been quite so willing to muck in with the maggots. But Jane Cummings has no squeamishness when it comes to dealing with the live bait for the fishing activity at a summer camp for children and teenagers living with serious illnesses.
Or at least she says she has none. When Society Guardian visits the camp, she is busy handing out the fishing poles and administering sun cream. She insists that earlier in the day she did her share of baiting the hooks (and then thoroughly cleansing her hands, of course).
Cummings is serving a week as a volunteer nurse at the camp, which is run by the Over The Wall (OTW) charity, part of the international SeriousFun Children's Network. SeriousFun is modelled on the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp started in the US by actor Paul Newman, who described such camps as places where "kids can kick back, relax and raise a little hell".
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/aug/07/nhs-health-officials-frontline-care
Not all her forerunners as England's chief nursing officer would have been quite so willing to muck in with the maggots. But Jane Cummings has no squeamishness when it comes to dealing with the live bait for the fishing activity at a summer camp for children and teenagers living with serious illnesses.
Or at least she says she has none. When Society Guardian visits the camp, she is busy handing out the fishing poles and administering sun cream. She insists that earlier in the day she did her share of baiting the hooks (and then thoroughly cleansing her hands, of course).
Cummings is serving a week as a volunteer nurse at the camp, which is run by the Over The Wall (OTW) charity, part of the international SeriousFun Children's Network. SeriousFun is modelled on the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp started in the US by actor Paul Newman, who described such camps as places where "kids can kick back, relax and raise a little hell".
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/aug/07/nhs-health-officials-frontline-care