This year, Healthcare Sunday will be held on Sunday 19 October.

There are over one million people employed by the NHS. Within the nursing and residential home sector there will be many thousands of others. Every church is likely to have numbers of members who work in Health Care. By the very nature of the jobs they do, they may often have to work unsocial hours and be away from church on Sunday. Often the work is demanding and the rate of pay for those at the lower end of the scale, very low....