Andrew Beswick started working in the trust in June 1977, at the ripe old age of 17. He began as a porter in radiology whilst awaiting to start his nurse training when he turned 18. He started his nurse training on March 1st, 1978, here at NGH, when we had a nursing school in the current training and development building.

When Andy qualified, he began working on Dryden ward, which was a medical ward at the time, and then soon started working in cardiology in May 1983 in the old CCU, which was based where the old HDU resided opposite Dryden ward. He continued to work in coronary care and became responsible for the national MINAP database, working closely with lead cardiologist Dr Birkhead.

Andrew has continued this work, reporting thrombolysis and the primary angioplasty data for NGH MINAP (Myocardial Infarction National Audit Program -which is door-to-needle time for the patients requiring coronary angiograms) since the 1990s. Over the years, he has taken new cardiology nurses, student nurses, junior doctors, and paramedic students under his wing and assisted them in their learning, while teaching the relevance of ECGs and how to read them. His advanced ECG interpretation is the best NGH has ever had.