‘My mum is stepping up because she doesn’t want others to suffer’
Volunteer voices – 21 May 2024
Minreet Kaur and her mother Pritpal joined Our Future Health together, to help break the taboo around cancer
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‘My dad’s heart attack was a wake-up call. Now I’m determined to improve preventative medicine for everyone’
Volunteer voices – 1 May 2024NHS prescribing pharmacist Danny Bartlett describes how the shock of his dad’s early heart attack helped him to rethink his patients’ health – and his own
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Meet the student paramedics on a mission to help others by taking part in Our Future Health
Volunteer voices – 24 April 2024We joined five trainee paramedics at their clinic appointment to talk about their hopes for our programme and what it means for young people
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‘I live in constant pain with endometriosis. Our Future Health can improve life for people like me’
Volunteer voices – 22 February 2024Volunteer Shannon Beasor explains how, by joining Our Future Health, she hopes to help shed light on her debilitating and poorly understood condition
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‘I was lucky to survive leukaemia. I hope we can reduce health inequalities for my son’s generation’
Volunteer voices – 6 February 2024NHS GP Farrah Somani explains why she’s backing Our Future Health to have a powerful impact on patients and doctors, and ethnicity related healthcare
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‘After surviving teenage cancer I have so many questions. I hope Our Future Health helps answer them’
Volunteer voices – 26 January 2024Volunteer Ellie Philpotts tells us how her experience with blood cancer inspired her to take part in our programme
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‘At 81, I’m fit enough to help train firefighters. I joined Our Future Health so that everyone can enjoy a full life’
Volunteer voices – 5 December 2023Volunteer Caroline Thomas has watched friends struggle with disease in their later years. She explains how her altruistic urge led her to the UK’s largest health research programme
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‘A stroke robbed my mum of her retirement. I hope Our Future Health stops it happening to others’
Volunteer voices – 14 November 2023For the latest in our volunteer voices series, NHS physiotherapist Jayne Faulkner describes the devastating impact of stroke
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‘I’m taking part because I want Black Women to be represented in health research’
Volunteer voices – 2 November 2023As part of our volunteer voices series, nurse Shamim Donatta Onyango-Odera explains why our programme offers people like her an opportunity to improve diversity in healthcare
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‘The end of my dad’s life with Parkinson’s was traumatic. I don’t want others to suffer like him’
Volunteer voices – 12 October 2023Volunteer Leah Wright on the need to understand more about the fastest growing neurological condition in the world – and why research is the answer
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