Dedicated Midwife's half century of service recognised with top honour

A BRISTOL midwife who dedicated her life to helping women have babies for 50 years has been awarded an OBE in the New Year's Honours list.

- Tristan CORK

Ann Remmers started work in the 1970s at Southmead Hospital in Bristol and last year was awarded the Chief Midwifery Officer Gold Award for 50 years of 'outstanding service and achievements in the NHS'.

She rose up to become the clinical director at North Bristol NHS Trust and then for the whole of the South West and said she felt that the OBE she received was really also for all the people who she has worked alongside over six decades of maternity care.