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Leaving a legacy behind

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Legacy nurses are using a lifetime of knowledge, skills and experience - ‘paying it forward’ to the next generation. Kathy Oxtoby reports on how a legacy nurse pilot programme is boosting retention, making people feel valued, and helping nurses to end their career on a high

Teresa Coe had been a nurse since 1984. By 2020 she was working as a quality assurance nurse for Norfolk and Waveney Clinical Commissioning Group. She no longer wanted to work full time. But she also wasn’t ready to retire.

‘I didn’t want the intensity and pressure of the job. But I still felt I had more to give the profession,’ she says.

Then, in Christmas 2020 she saw an advert in the CCG’s jobs bulletin that she felt suited her needs exactly. ‘It was a post for someone who was coming up to retirement but who still wanted to be involved in nursing and still felt they had something to offer. I thought – that job has my name on it.’

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