Team of caring nurses help end-of-life patients fulfill wedding dreams by arranging hospital ceremonies

02/01/24 at 04:00 AM

Team of caring nurses help end-of-life patients fulfill wedding dreams by arranging hospital ceremonies
People, by Erin Clack; 1/30/24
Natasha Steels-Webb and her colleagues came up with the idea to create boxes filled with wedding essentials to pull off hospital ceremonies. "Myself and a colleague decided to create the wedding box after a patient we were caring for had become very unwell and it was clear she was not going to recover," Steels-Webb said in a post on the North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust's website. "She had been with her current partner for many years, but they just hadn't got around to getting married — and this was something they both wanted," she continued.

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