'I adore my patients so I will miss it a lot'

INSPIRING NURSE LOOKING FORWARD TO RETIREMENT AFTER DECADES OF SERVICE

- By ROB CURRELL

JUDE Hogg, 66, has had a long and distinguished career as a nurse and said she will be looking forward to staying busy during retirement. She has already planned a trip to Canada alongside her sister and has numerous hobbies, including reading, to enjoy.

The nurse from Cottingham, who currently works as a specialist research nurse in haematology, said: "I will miss my colleagues and patients, it has been an honour to work with everyone I have worked with over the years. Some of these people I've known over 20 years.

"By the time I leave I would have been working 50 years. I work with a fantastic group of supportive, pleasant staff from the nurses to doctors and it has been great going to work each day. I love nursing and I adore my patients so I will miss it a lot."

Jude started her nursing career at the Beverley Westwood Hospital when it was a training facility and was inspired to go into the profession by a family friend who was already working in nursing. The seed was planted when Jude was only seven or eight years old after her mother's friend suggested that she should go into nursing because she was such a caring person. Ever since, Jude wanted to go into nursing and this led to her spending several decades of her working life in the profession.