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OU student nurse helps heart attack victim

A student nurse with The Open University has been praised after helping a man who collapsed with a heart attack.

 

Claire Thomas, 43, was in the right place at the right time when she help resuscitate a man from Keynsham, near Bristol, who fell ill while buying a newspaper.

 

The man’s wife was so grateful to “mystery nurse” Claire that she appealed via BBC News for her to come forward and the pair were later united over the airwaves of BBC Radio Bristol.

 

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Picture: Student nurse Claire Thomas with heart attack victim Bill Hardingham in hospital.

 

 


 

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Tweet A student nurse with The Open University has been praised after helping a man who collapsed with a heart attack.   Claire Thomas, 43, was in the right place at the right time when she help resuscitate a man from Keynsham, near Bristol, who fell ill while buying a newspaper.   The man’s wife was so grateful to “mystery nurse” Claire that she ...

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