A HAMPSHIRE nurse has received a top award after working 60-hour shifts during the pandemic.
Lin Silvestri, who has been in the profession for half a century, was presented with the Chief Nursing Officer’s Silver Award in a surprise ceremony.
Lin was 17 when she began her career at the Lord Mayor Treloar Orthopaedic Hospital in Alton in 1971.
After 30 years in the NHS, including spells at the Royal South Hants Hospital and Southampton General Hospital, she spent three years nursing in Saudi Arabia.
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