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Westminster Abbey celebrates 70th anniversary of the NHS
Thursday, 5th July 2018
Her Royal Highness The Countess of Wessex attended a Service to Celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the NHS at Westminster Abbey on 5th July 2018.
...about the National Health Service, which he more than anyone had brought into being, Aneurin Bevan said in 1959 not long before he died, 'I'm proud about the
Special Service NHS 70th anniversary HRH The Countess of Wessex
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One People Oration 2023
Saturday, 28th October 2023
One People Oration 2023:.
Her early career was spent mainly in the Department of Health and the NHS, with senior roles in the Ministry of Justice and the Department for Transport.
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Address given at a Service of Commemoration and Thanksgiving on Remembrance Sunday 2025
Sunday, 9th November 2025
Ours must be a moral remembrance, one that stays the course.
Five years ago, we stood on doorsteps and applauded the NHS, called the courage and commitment.
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Address given at A Service of Thanksgiving and Rededication to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain
Sunday, 20th September 2020
Today marks the 80th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain. It is a time for us to reflect and remember, to recall memories, to remember the sacrifices made and not least the pivotal nature of the event.
Why did it somehow seem appropriate to have a Spitfire flying over Britain with the words ‘thank U NHS’ emblazoned underneath?
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NHS celebrates 75th anniversary
Wednesday, 5th July 2023
Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh attended a service celebrating the 75th anniversary of the National Health Service at Westminster Abbey on Wednesday 5th July 2023.
...Westminster, the Very Reverend Dr David Hoyle, who said in his Bidding: 'We gather in thanksgiving for both the grace of God and the grace and glory that is the
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Sermon Given at Matins on the Tenth Sunday after Trinity 2015
Sunday, 9th August 2015
Sermon given by The Reverend David Stanton, Canon in Residence.
Over recent months, parts of the NHS have come under particular fire, with politicians calling for health professionals to show more compassion.
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Sermon at Evensong on the Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity 2018
Sunday, 30th September 2018
Sermon at Evensong on the Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity 2018: The Church mediates to all people, not least those who have been dealt the toughest cards. The contaminated blood scandal inquiry, which.
Its an appalling tragedy, the worst ever within the NHS, which should simply never have happened.
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Address given at a Service of Thanksgiving to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Westminster Hospital
Thursday, 23rd May 2019
We honour the men and women who have served over the years and those who continue to serve in our own day.
...his address, quoted words of the current archbishop of Canterbury that ‘our NHS is the most powerful and visible expression of our Christian heritage.’ There is...
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Sermon at Evensong on the Second Sunday of Advent 2019
Sunday, 8th December 2019
Sermon at Evensong on the Second Sunday of Advent 2019: "The things which matter most must never be at the mercy of the things which matter least" [Goethe] Our New Testament lesson.
our involvement with the larger social issues like justice and peace, the NHS and climate change which require the witness of a caring community, challenges us...
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Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fifth Sunday of Easter 2018
Sunday, 29th April 2018
Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fifth Sunday of Easter 2018: Casting out fear Rosie Keville lives with the consequences of fear. Every day Rosie is confronted by terrified young men,.
Rosie is based in an NHS trauma ward in the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel.
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Free entry to the Abbey for NHS staff as summer visiting hours are announced
Friday, 25th June 2021
NHS staff will be able to visit Westminster Abbey for free from July onwards. The gesture to NHS staff is an acknowledgment of all their hard work during the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic.
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33rd Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture
Thursday, 24th May 2018
Speaker: The Reverend Richard Coles FKC, Vicar of Finedon, Northamptonshire
...them, including one who is in full time employment as a nurse in the NHS, but as a single mother with steeply rising childcare and housing costs, has found...
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One People Oration 2006
Wednesday, 22nd February 2006
Speaker: Mr Tony Colman (former Chair, UK Parliament UN Group)
The welfare state - the reforms of the 1940s saved me - a NHS and universal education system.
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30th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture
Thursday, 21st May 2015
The Reverend Lucy Winkett asks what can the Church say about the Christian requirement for mercy as a public value? Is the quest for purity as damaging as it is noble? Do our public conversations confuse sincerity with truth? And is there any such thing as innocence?
...equip what can be called the dispersed church who are working today in the NHS, in an office, cleaning a street, trying to develop a startup, moving money from...
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15th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture
Thursday, 4th May 2000
Delivered by The Reverend Canon Dr Martyn Percy at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 4th May 2000 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford and the Cathedral, Sheffield.
For example, as NHS Trusts grow into their localised subsidiarity, they can start to own their own distinctive definitions of what it means to offer ‘spiritual...
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Abbey turns itself NHS blue for nurses’ tribute
Tuesday, 12th May 2020
Westminster Abbey turned itself NHS blue and invited in a clinical research nurse to help celebrate today’s 200th anniversary of the birthday of Florence Nightingale.
The Abbey’s Deputy Clerk of the Works Iain MacDonald turned the church’s chandeliers NHS blue for her visit.
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Covid vaccination centre opens in Poets' Corner
Wednesday, 10th March 2021
The NHS has opened a new Covid-19 vaccination clinic in Westminster Abbey.
by Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, on behalf of the local GP network, it will provide up to two thousand life-saving jabs each week in...
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Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visit Abbey vaccine clinic
Tuesday, 23rd March 2021
Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have today visited the NHS Covid-19 vaccination clinic in Westminster Abbey.
...Scott Craddock, the Abbey’s Head of Visitor Experience, and Victoria de la Morinière, Head of Quality Improvement at Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation
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Paul Baumann appointed Receiver General
Thursday, 21st June 2018
Paul Baumann CBE has been appointed the next Receiver General of Westminster Abbey. He is currently NHS England's Chief Financial Officer.
joined NHS London, the Strategic Health Authority for the Capital, as its first Chief Financial Officer in May 2007 and took up his current position in May 2012.
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