{"id":71207,"date":"2025-10-10T07:24:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T07:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/71207\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T07:24:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T07:24:06","slug":"gloucester-woman-says-voluntary-role-in-nhs-life-changing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/71207\/","title":{"rendered":"Gloucester woman says voluntary role in NHS &#8216;life-changing&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A military wife says joining an NHS volunteering programme felt &#8220;like a whole new chapter&#8221; and &#8220;a really big deal&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Angie Duffin, from Barnwood in Gloucester, had always wanted to work in the NHS but her husband&#8217;s military career required them to frequently relocate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 50-year-old has now started a paid role in pathology after taking part in the Volunteer to Career scheme at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I can&#8217;t tell you the impact the programme has had on my life,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It&#8217;s been a really big deal for me, it has been life-changing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A military wife says joining an NHS volunteering programme felt &#8220;like a whole new chapter&#8221; and &#8220;a really&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-71207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-care","10":"tag-healthcare","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}