{"id":258195,"date":"2025-07-12T06:10:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T06:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/258195\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T06:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T06:10:13","slug":"doncaster-nhs-practitioner-to-swim-english-channel-for-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/258195\/","title":{"rendered":"Doncaster NHS practitioner to swim English Channel for charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Raising money for the NHS Trust was special, she said, and she hoped it could &#8220;improve patient outcomes and working conditions for colleagues&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added the SwimTayka charity was also important to her because she felt &#8220;privileged in terms of being able to swim&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve come across so many people who can&#8217;t swim, and actually adults as well,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s great they&#8217;re teaching kids in undeveloped places how to do it &#8211; it&#8217;s a great charity to be involved in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Suzy Brain England OBE, chair of the board at DBTH, said: &#8220;Ellie&#8217;s determination and commitment, both in her clinical role and through this extraordinary fundraising challenge, are truly inspiring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;On behalf of the board, we are incredibly proud of Ellie and wish her and the Riptide Racers every success as they take on the English Channel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The team will be on standby to swim between 11 and 18 July, with the exact day being chosen based on the swimming conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raising money for the NHS Trust was special, she said, and she hoped it could &#8220;improve patient outcomes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-258195","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114838780562793370","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}