Agony aunt and NHS campaigner Claire Rayner dies at 79
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Claire Rayner wanted her last words to be "Tell David Cameron that if he screws up my beloved NHS I'll come back and bloody haunt him." after she spent year campaigning for the NHS and was medical journalist of the year in 1987.
"In May she had intestinal surgery but had remained poorly.
She died in hospital near her home in Harrow, north-west London.
Mrs Rayner, who had three children - Amanda, Adam and restaurant critic Jay - will have a humanist funeral for family and close friends.
A former nurse and midwife, for many years she was also president of the Patients Association.
She was diagnosed with breast cancer at 70, but beat the illness. In 2006 she wrote about her experience on the BBC News website."-BBC
The BBC profile contains information about her life like promoting safe sex, OBE for services to women's issues and health issues and her work as a journalist and agony aunt.
"In May she had intestinal surgery but had remained poorly.
She died in hospital near her home in Harrow, north-west London.
Mrs Rayner, who had three children - Amanda, Adam and restaurant critic Jay - will have a humanist funeral for family and close friends.
A former nurse and midwife, for many years she was also president of the Patients Association.
She was diagnosed with breast cancer at 70, but beat the illness. In 2006 she wrote about her experience on the BBC News website."-BBC
The BBC profile contains information about her life like promoting safe sex, OBE for services to women's issues and health issues and her work as a journalist and agony aunt.
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A memorial site was created for Claire Rayner! Honor her memory by contributing to her memorial site http://clairerayner.people2remember.com/
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