Seven colleagues from Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire an Berkshire West Integrated Care Board (BOB ICB) will join other NHS staff, senior Government and political leaders, health leaders and celebrities at a service at Westminster Abbey to celebrate the NHS 75th birthday this week.

The service, at 11am on Wednesday 5 July, will include an address by NHS chief executive Amanda Pritchard.

Guests in the Abbey will include around 1,500 NHS staff, as well as some famous names and NHS Charities Together.

The seven people from BOB ICB who will part of the this special service are:

  • Catherine Mustill, Digital Literacy Lead, Primary Care Digital Team 
  • Julie Dandridge, Deputy Director. Head of Primary Care
  • Dr  David Chapman - Clinical lead for MH, POD and Specialised commissioning delegation and Clinical Input to Strategic ICP and ICB planning 
  • Gill Dunn, Diabetes Specialist Nurse Clinical lead Community, Integrated Diabetes Delivery Network  
  • Asela Ball, Senior Quality Manager
  • Orla Mcbridge, Prescribing Support Pharmacist
  • Sally Murray, Head of Children’s Commissioning  

Dr Rachael de Caux, chief medical officer at BOB ICB, said: "This special service at Westminster Abbey will be a day to remember for everyone attending and an opportunity to reflect. I hope our colleagues from the ICB really enjoy being part of such a remarkable occasion."

May Parsons, an associate chief nurse who delivered the world’s first vaccine outside of a clinical trial in December 2020, will carry the George Cross into the Abbey in a procession. May received the medal from Queen Elizabeth II, along with NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard and representatives from the other UK health services at Windsor Castle in July 2022.

She will be joined by joined by 17-year-old Kyle Dean-Curtis, St John Ambulance cadet of the year, who wants to work in the NHS, and 91-year-old Enid Richmond, who was one of the first people to work in the NHS as a junior clerical worker and whose sister still volunteers in the health service.

Prayers will be read by health and social care secretary Steve Barclay, chief nurse Dame Ruth May, NHS national medical director Professor Sir Stephen Powis, chief allied health professions officer Prof Suzanne Rastick OBE, and Richard Webb-Stevens, a paramedic who was first on the scene of the Westminster Bridge terror attack and who holds the Queen’s Ambulance Medal for Distinguished Service.

Testimonies will also be given by Dame Elizabeth Anionwu OM, the UK’s first sickle cell nurse, academic, and author, Ellie Orton, Chief Executive, NHS Charities Together and Dr Martin English and Dr Michael Griksaitis, NHS consultants who jointly led a team who brought over 21 Ukrainian children with cancer to the UK from Poland in March 2022, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.