Sarah Hartle, 34, from Manchester, has been a dental nurse ever since she left school and has been studying at university to become a dental hygienist.
She successfully gained her qualification on the day the country went into lockdown back in March. She says: ‘It was literally a few hours after I had qualified. I had been studying since 2018 and it had all been building to this – but now I had nothing, no means of earning, plus I had two young children who suddenly weren’t at school.’
Although she was frustrated she couldn’t start her new role, she was keen to use her training as part of the NHS Test and Trace process.
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