A Northumberland photographer has been crowned of one of five winners in a photography competition celebrating 75 years of the NHS.
Hundreds of the health service's staff and volunteers from across the country entered photographs of what the NHS means to them, where they were whittle down to 75 photographs across five different categories. Wasim Baqir, a senior pharmacist in the department of the Northumbria Healthcare Trust took the prize in the "Our Innovations" category for his photograph entitled "The Solution".
The image was taken on Christmas Eve 2020 during one of Wasim's shifts in a Covid-19 vaccination clinic at North Tyneside Hospital and shows hundreds of used vials in an orange sharps bin illustrating the NHS' effort to deliver the vaccination programme. Other winning images included an ambulance battling the Beast from the East, and an image of a nurse named 'Mother Obe' who is renowned for sharing almost half a century of expertise as a mentor to new nurses.
