num_pages: 368
description: In 1966 at the age of 16 Woodcock became a cadet nurse at Blackburn Royal Infirmary beginning a nursing career that lasted more than four decades. In this memoir of a challenging but rewarding job she recalls how the strict matrons set the highest standards of care and professionalism as well as describing her many varied experiences in NHS wards and casualty departments a prison and a police unit dealing with sexual assault.
language: English
title: Matron Knows Best
publisher: Headline Review