Midhurst Palliative Care funds the independent Midhurst Macmillan service which provides specialist, consultant-led palliative care at home to patients and families affected by any life-limiting illness. In my professional life, I have witnessed the fantastic work they do in allowing patients to be cared for at home at the end of their lives, providing dignity and respect for terminally ill patients.

After 33 years working in the NHS, I am stepping down from being a full time General Practitioner. To mark the event, and to raise money for the charity, I am swimming 33.3km in 4 days, a distance equivalent to the English Channel swim. It also means that I will swim a kilometre for every year I have worked in the NHS. I am swimming with my daughter who is enjoying herself in the background of this photo! Please give generously!

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