Nurse dedicates over 50 years to caring for the sick

Carol McNeil at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham Credit: ITV News

The NHS still has one priceless resource to rely on as the bedrock of its continuing service. Day in, day out, the nurses in our hospitals bear the brunt of the intense pressures of working on the NHS frontline.

ITV News met one of Britain's longest serving nurses at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.

Carol McNeil has dedicated more than half a century to caring for the sick.

Carol McNeil is one of Britain's longest serving nurses Credit: ITV News

Mary Nightingale met Carol McNeil on wards at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.

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