After a career as a decorator, a shock injury led one North East NHS nurse into a dramatic change in career - and he's described it as the best decision he ever made.
Adrian Anim, 52, has now been a qualified nurse nine years. He works as a care co-ordinator in the Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Trust's learning disability team - and has won the Social Care Nurse of the Year award twice in a row at the North East Great British Care Awards, having been nominated by the families he works with.
Denton-based Adrian - who went to school moments from where he is now based at the Walkergate Park Hospital - said the recognition was nice, but that it was his day to day work with families in need that he found most rewarding. Speaking about one of the families who nominated him for the gong - with whom he spent several months working - he said: "They are a family who had a learning disabled child with a range of physical disabilities.
