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Southampton alumna wins The Telegraph’s Cassandra Jardine Memorial Prize

Rhiannon Frame-Jones, a previous student at our University, has won the for her account about her efforts toÌýsave a stranger’s life as a student nurse, beating over 100 other entries.

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Rhiannon Frame-Jones, winner of the Cassandra Jardine Memorial Prize

Rhiannon Frame-Jones studied at the University before training as a nurse and qualifying in April 2015.ÌýShe now works in Neuro Intensive Care at Southampton General Hospital.

Her submission details her dedication to saving a stranger’s life who had collapsed on theÌýstreet, before she had qualified as a nurse. As our student nurses continue through lectures and placement over the summer, Rhiannon Frame-Jones highlights the importance of what they are doing inÌýÌý

Deputy Editor ofÌýThe Telegraph, Liz Hunt, said it was the broader theme and message that made our Alumna’s articleÌýstand out from the crowd, which she summarised with a sentence from the winning piece:

“There is another factor that stands between us and the abyss: each other.”

In her article, Rhiannon Frame-Jones points readers towardsÌý‘s aim to make CPR a part of the national curriculum, and information on how to get life-saving training from .

 
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