Delivering Change

Life Changing

BBC

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.6 • 735 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

When nurse and midwife Agnes Nisbett’s third baby was delivered, she was confronted by a profound need for systemic change. Agnes came to the UK as part of the Windrush generation and despite many barriers, “sheer hard work” got her to the top of her profession. However, her own hospital experience in the 1970s revealed just how flawed and uncaring the system could be.

Now in her 80s, Agnes looks back on her time in the NHS, and shares with Dr Sian Williams how her personal loss inspired her to challenge and change things for others.

Warning: This interview discusses the experience of stillbirth. Details of help and support with pregnancy-related issues are available through the BBC Action Line at bbc.co.uk/actionline.

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0:47.8	Hello and welcome to the series that hears from people who've experienced a moment in their lives that transforms everything.
0:52.8	Today, a woman whose courage and compassion in the face of unimaginable sadness,
0:57.1	helped change not just her life, but that of many, many others.
1:00.2	Her name is Agnes, and she joins us from Lester.
1:02.1	Hello, Agnes, lovely to see you.
1:04.4	Hi, lovely to be here.
1:06.3	Lester's home now.
1:08.1	Where did you spend your early years?
1:08.8	Where were you born?
1:13.4	I was born in Nevis, an island in the Caribbean.
1:16.5	Sinkets and Nevis is one federation.
1:24.2	And I did my nurses training in St Kitts and was qualified as a nurse.
1:28.3	And you came to the UK in 1959? 59, yes. You were just 21, weren't you?
1:30.3	Why did you leave the Caribbean?
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