Bolton nurse is retiring after working for the NHS for fifty years. Ida Johnson is set to hang up her uniform after 35 years at Bolton Royal Hospital.
The 66-year-old first started her career as a cadet nurse at Salford Royal in 1970. She also served at Bury’s Florence Nightingale Hospital before moving to Royal Bolton in 1985.Ida qualified as a registered children's nurse in 1998 and she worked across the Trust’s Children’s Wards and settled into Children’s Outpatients in 2009.Her career followed in the footsteps of her father who had worked as a medic in the army and returned to be a charge nurse in Greater Manchester.Ida volunteered for the Red Cross from 12-years-old before beginning her nursing career at 16.She fondly remembers working.
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