I chose nursing right from a very young age. My mum is a nurse and I really admired what she did. I helped care for my grandmother at the end of her life and it was a really life-changing experience. I felt very privileged to become a nurse myself.

One of the things that we do in the community is support people to stay at home. When they have got an acute illness or when managing a long-term condition, they can be supported and can have clinical care while staying away from hospital. What is really critical is the ability to respond very quickly when patients are ill, to identify when they’re deteriorating. You can prevent things from getting to the point where they’ll need hospital admission. We save lives by doing that, we change people’s trajectory.