Anne Ferguson

Dec 8, 2023 | bmj.com | Jennifer Holland |Anne Ferguson

Jennifer Holland, Anne FergusonStanley Dennington Pratt qualified in 1948, the year the NHS came into being. After house jobs, he undertook national service in Gibraltar as the army anaesthetist. He was an anaesthetic registrar at Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport, where he met his future wife, Barbara, on her first day as a house officer. Stanley moved to general practice, first in Timperley, then in Chelford. He was on call “one in two” throughout his working life.