SOME of the founding members of a lifesaving medical unit were reunited at a special dinner.
This year, Southampton General Hospital’s neurological unit is celebrating its 50th birthday and to mark the occasion a dinner was held at Avington Park near Winchester.
Six of the original members of staff were among the guests - Mr Ray Hunt (senior pathology technician), Judith Hope (senior ward sister), Pam Kimber (superintendent radiographer), Elizabeth Hockey (senior ward sister) and Margaret Rose (theatre sister).
Other former members of staff from the unit’s early days were in attendance alongside present day staff and management.
The neurology department provides services for most of central southern England, including Southampton, Winchester, Portsmouth, Basingstoke, Salisbury, Isle of Wight, Chichester, and the Channel Islands.
Neurology clinics are held in hospitals around the region as well as the main clinic in the Wessex Neurological Centre in Southampton.
The department's treats patients with neuromuscular disorders, movement disorders (including Parkinson's disease), neuroinflammatory diseases (including multiple sclerosis), stroke, epilepsy and cognitive disorders.
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