Turner, 75, spends two days a week driving patients, and said he started volunteering to “try and give something back to the NHS, albeit in a very modest way”.
He is one of 17 volunteer discharge drivers, who are only paid for their fuel and mileage.
As well as driving patients around, they help settle them into their homes, checking heating, lights, and water are up and running if they have had a long stay in hospital.
“People have had their [electricity] meters run out while they’ve been in hospital,” Turner explained, adding that “when you’re feeling a bit frail and uncertain, it’s nice to have somebody there to help”.
He said the patients he transported sometimes “think they’ve got to pay” for the service, adding that he is “very pleased to tell them, good old NHS, it’s free”.