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Education, spiritual guidance and a good cappuccino: the new face of the NHS

17 November 2018

9:00 AM

17 November 2018

9:00 AM

Left at the Dementia Café, right at the Sleep Office, past the Spiritual Care Centre…

This was my journey through the ground floor of my local hospital until I came to the physiotherapy department where the Calf Stretching Education Group was being held.

Hospitals are very different places nowadays from the forbidding buildings of my childhood where doctors and nurses in starched uniforms used to attempt to cure people.

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