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Peter Bradshaw missed out an important cultural feature of Letchmore Heath (\u2018The Village of the Damned was shot here \u2013 then George Harrison bought a house\u2019: our UK town of culture nominations, 23 January). Before Piggott\u2019s Manor was sold to George Harrison, it was the preliminary training school of St Bartholomew\u2019s hospital in Smithfield, London, where 18-year-old would-be nurses spent three months before being let loose on real patients \u2013 learning how to bandage, give bed baths and change bed sheets with the \u201cpatient\u201d still in it (practising on each other), give injections (into oranges), present food in an appetising way and \u2013 most importantly \u2013 to clean.<\/p>\n
Following this three-month period, we spent the next two-and-three-quarter years on the wards (as a form of apprenticeship) doing actual nursing work of greater complexity and responsibility. A far cry from the major cultural shift of today\u2019s nurse training spent in universities and on placements. Peter Bradshaw missed out an important cultural feature of Letchmore Heath (\u2018The Village of the Damned was shot here \u2013 then George Harrison bought a house\u2019: our UK town of culture nominations, 23 January). Before Piggott\u2019s Manor was sold to George Harrison, it was the preliminary training school of St Bartholomew\u2019s hospital in Smithfield, London,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[22556,1072,22554,671,22555,2760],"class_list":{"0":"post-42969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-backstory","9":"tag-george","10":"tag-harrisons","11":"tag-house","12":"tag-interesting","13":"tag-nursing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Dr Liz Rolls-Firth<\/strong>
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