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Harriet Walton is an Emergency Medicine Nurse at University College Hospital, London. We interviewed her as part of our #PassTheMic campaign.
Here’s some of what she had to say.
I work in an emergency department in central London so, as you can imagine, we get patients from all over the world.
In the UK we are extremely fortunate to have the National Health Service (NHS), and it should never be taken for granted. We have one of the best health systems in...