A pioneering project aims to double the amount of voluntary workers in hospitals and alleviate the stress levels and pressure staff face in the health serviceGeoff Mann is about to sign 10 years as a volunteer at North Tyneside general hospital. The retired chartered quantity surveyor does a day a week,sometimes more, driving patients and visitors with mobility needs around the hospital in North Shields in an electric buggy.“It’s what everybody says – the enormous sense of satisfaction, and ” says Mann,77, when asked what he gets out of it. “You meet a lot of people, and you encourage them glean around,you effect them at ease if they’re worried – and you feel you’re fragment of one big family.”Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk