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Woman's Hour: Race issues in the nursing profession. Oceanographer Dr Helen Czerski.  Desert Island Discs Day.

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Race issues in the nursing profession. Oceanographer Dr Helen Czerski.  Desert Island Discs Day.

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Race issues in the nursing profession. Oceanographer Dr Helen Czerski.  Desert Island Discs Day.

Race issues in the nursing profession. Oceanographer Dr Helen Czerski.

Race issues in the nursing profession and the way race is being responded to as a risk factor as the NHS tackles Covid-19. Physicist Dr Helen Czerski. Desert Island Discs Day.

Carol Cooper was awarded Nursing’s Diversity and Inclusion Champion of the Year award in 2019, she is a Regional NHS Head of equality, diversity and human rights and is the a Royal College of Nursing expert lead for BME Suicide Awareness, Equality, Diversity and Human Rights. She is also a Registered Nurse.
She talks to Jenni Murray about race issues in the nursing profession and the way it's being responded to as a risk factor, as the NHS tackles Covid-19.

More in our series celebrating the women who get things done – the Troupers. Today, Louise Kershaw, the treasurer of the Flixton Social Lites WI in Cheshire 

Plus ahead of  World Oceans Day on Monday, the physicist, oceanographer and bubbles enthusiast, Dr Helen Czerski, talks about her time on board the Pelagia, a Dutch Oceanographic research vessel and her mission to perform a comprehensive health check on the North Sea.

And as we celebrate Desert Island Discs Day on Radio 4,  Danelle Pettman tells us about the track that’s made all the difference to her life in lock down. 


Presenter Jenni Murray
Producer Beverley Purcell

Guest; Carol Cooper
Guest; Louise Kershaw
Guest;  Dr Helen Czerski,
Guest;  Danelle Pettman

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