\n Sarah Ashworth worked in a number of frontline roles, including theatres and the Emergency Department, after achieving her childhood ambition of becoming a nurse in 2003.\n<\/p>\n
\n Inspired by the care her grandfather received at Royal Bolton Hospital, Sarah said she always knew she wanted a career in healthcare but a change in her health in 2017 forced her to rethink her future.\n<\/p>\n
\n She said: “I felt quite sad at the time and thought my career was over.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Nursing was something I’d dreamed of since I was a little girl.\n<\/p>\n
\n “But finding procurement sparked a new interest for me.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Sarah began learning about procurement while working closely with theatre teams on medical equipment and supplier contracts, using her clinical experience to help ensure staff had access to the products they needed.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It made me feel like I still had the ability to make a difference and help people.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Now working as a programme manager with iFM Bolton, the trust’s estates and facilities partner, Sarah recently helped lead the rollout of a new inventory management system designed to improve stock control, product traceability and patient safety and the project has introduced new ways of working across a number of hospital departments.\n<\/p>\n
\n Although moving away from nursing was initially daunting, Sarah said the experience had shown her there are many ways to make a difference within the NHS.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I didn’t realise you could be a nurse and not wear a uniform, still out there caring, just in a different way.”\n<\/p>\n
\n One of the highlights of her new career saw her represent Bolton at a national healthcare conference in London, where she shared the trust’s work with NHS colleagues from around the country.\n<\/p>\n
\n Sarah said the move had helped her develop new skills in leadership, communication and strategic thinking while continuing to improve services for patients.\n<\/p>\n
\n “What I value most now is the ability to influence change in a meaningful and lasting way,” she said.\n<\/p>\n
\n “My impact is no longer limited to individual patient interactions.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Instead, I can contribute to improvements that benefit patients, staff and services across the organisation.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Looking back on her journey, she said the experience had reinforced the reason she joined the NHS in the first place.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Most importantly, it has reinforced why I chose a career in healthcare: to make a difference.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sarah Ashworth worked in a number of frontline roles, including theatres and the Emergency Department, after achieving her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-814391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}