Patients, charities and staff held a “Big 7 Tea” party to celebrate the NHS's 70th anniversary.
The NHS Herts Valleys Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) gathered people who had contributed to the health service to the party in Harpenden on Thursday and laid on a range of “fantastic” performances.
Among the guests where the ‘Purple All Stars’, a group made up of people with leaning difficulties who use creative arts to get health messages across.
Alison Gardner, lay member of the Herts Valleys CCG Board, said: “It was lovely to hear patients’ and staff’s experience of how the NHS has changed over 70 years”.
The NHS in Hertfordshire is also distributing 10,000 pledge cards to patients asking people to give something back.
John Wigley, patient representative on the Herts Valleys CCG Board, said: “We are asking people in Hertfordshire to make a pledge to help the NHS on its special birthday getting active, volunteering or even giving feedback on NHS.”
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