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Agony aunt Claire Rayner dies at age 79
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October 12, 2010, Tuesday
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AGONY aunt and patients' rights campaigner Claire Rayner has died at the age of 79, media reported today.
Rayner, who was also a writer and broadcaster who penned a number of novels, had suffered from cancer for several years.
The former nurse was reported to have told her relatives she wanted her last words to be: "Tell (Prime Minister) David Cameron that if he screws up my beloved NHS I'll come back and bloody haunt him."
In May, she had intestinal surgery from which she failed to recover and died in hospital near her home in Harrow, north west London, on Monday.
"Right up until her death she was being consulted by both politicians and the medical profession about the best way to provide the health services the nation deserved and nothing mattered to her more than that. Her death leaves a vacancy which will not be filled," her husband and agent Des Rayner was reported as saying.
She was president of the Patients Association and vice-president of the British Humanist Association.
Rayner, who was also a writer and broadcaster who penned a number of novels, had suffered from cancer for several years.
The former nurse was reported to have told her relatives she wanted her last words to be: "Tell (Prime Minister) David Cameron that if he screws up my beloved NHS I'll come back and bloody haunt him."
In May, she had intestinal surgery from which she failed to recover and died in hospital near her home in Harrow, north west London, on Monday.
"Right up until her death she was being consulted by both politicians and the medical profession about the best way to provide the health services the nation deserved and nothing mattered to her more than that. Her death leaves a vacancy which will not be filled," her husband and agent Des Rayner was reported as saying.
She was president of the Patients Association and vice-president of the British Humanist Association.
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