NHS staff from across the East Riding of Yorkshire will join Secretary of State for Health, Alan Johnson MP, and other guests, for a unique service at Beverley Minster on Friday (July 4)) to mark 60 years of the National Health Service.
East Riding of Yorkshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) is hosting the service, which will be conducted by the Bishop of Hull, the Rt. Rev Richard Frith, at Beverley Minster on Friday at 2pm.
The service will be an opportunity to reflect upon the NHS o
f the past and present and look to the future of healthcare.
School poetry competition winner Riyona Varghese,11, of Spring Cottage Primary School, Hull, will recite her thought-provoking and funny poem about the importance of healthy eating.
This will be complemented by the recollections of retired General Practitioner Dr Michael Whiting who first qualified as a doctor in 1941 and took up practice in the Welton, South Cave and North Cave area in 1947.
Dr Whiting was in a position to witness the birth of the NHS and the difference it made to poorer families who no longer had to join 'sick clubs' to be able to afford basic treatment or worry about how much it would cost to see the doctor.
Two talented local choirs Hull Youth Choir and Longcroft School and Performing Arts College Gospel Choir will sing during the service. Handel's Messiah Comfort Ye My People will be performed by classically trained soloist Neil Griffiths, who is Locality Associate Director for East Riding of Yorkshire PCT.
NHS staff from across the region will also form a procession with candles in the church to represent the six decades of healthcare.
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