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Anne Marie with clinical nurse specialist Lynne Stirling<p><li> To nominate someone, go to the <a href=http://www.nhsggc.org.uk/anniversary> NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde awards website</a><br><li>or you can phone 0141 278 2673 during office hours <br><li>or email <a href=mailto:nhsdiamonds@ggc.scot.nhs.uk>NHS Diamond Awards</a> and ask for a copy of the form NHS DIAMOMND AWARDS: Without their help I couldn’t have coped with my breast cancer battle
SHE calls them her Angels of Mercy and Anne Marie McKenzie has no idea how she would have coped without breast clinical nurse specialist nurses Lynne Stirling and Pauline McIlvain at the Beatson Oncology Centre.
  <li> To nominate someone, go to the <a href=http://www.nhsggc.org.uk/anniversary> NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde awards website</a><br><li>or you can phone 0141 278 2673 during office hours <br><li>or email <a href=mailto:nhsdiamonds@ggc.scot.nhs.uk>NHS Diamond Awards</a> and ask for a copy of the form VOTE FOR YOUR NHS DIAMONDS: Nominate now for health awards
SIXTY years ago this summer, the NHS was born and health care became free. Only those who can remember worrying about calling a doctor because of the cost can fully appreciate what the NHS meant to people in 1948.
 

NHS DIAMOND AWARDS: We didn’t know if our car crash kids were going to survive – we owe so much to the NHS
SHE CAN'T remember her name, but Heather Gray will never forget the nurse who sat by her side during the longest night of her life. "It was a surgical ward in Glasgow Western Infirmary and every time I opened my eyes, that nurse was there," she recalls.

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THE memories of patients and staff are urgently needed - to help tell the story of the NHS in Glasgow over the past 60 years.

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IT was the day the world-famous NHS was born -and as always the Evening Times was first with the news.

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