our colleagues who had left St Lawrence’s had gone on to manage a unit in Bristol; he also became the medical advisor for the BBC series Casualty. I had replaced him on Kenwyn Ward as a nursing assistant; he went off to commence his nurse training. He managed to bring loads of different items to the evening that had been signed by the actors in the series – even a plaster cast! We raffled all of these items and the money went to a mental health charity.

