{"id":69419,"date":"2025-10-10T06:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T06:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/69419\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T06:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T06:34:07","slug":"gloucester-woman-says-voluntary-role-in-nhs-life-changing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/69419\/","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":69420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-69419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}