A DISTRICT nurse who is ‘loved by everybody’ has retired from Berinsfield Health Centre.

Eileen Frazer, of Garsington, near Oxford, has hung up her nursing uniform after working in the NHS since 1964.

For the past 16 years the grandmother-of-two has been working in the community in Berinsfield.

Mrs Frazer, 65, said what she will miss the most is working with the people of Berinsfield.

She said: “When I came here people told me to ‘look out for my tyres’ as it is supposed to be a rough area.

“But it is not like that at all here. The people of Berinsfield are just amazing.

“I will miss them very much. To be honest, I don’t want to leave but you have to go sometimes I suppose!”

Fellow district nurse Katie Teague organised a party for Mrs Frazer with some of her patients and co-workers.

She said: “Everybody loves Eileen. She has really become such a part of the community and she will be missed such a lot.”

Mrs Frazer said she plans to spend her retirement enjoying more time with her grandchildren.

She finished her training as a nurse in Edinburgh before moving to Oxford to work as a ward sister at the old Radcliffe Infirmary, in Woodstock Road, and then at the former Oxford Community Hospital (Oxcomm), based at the Churchill Hospital in Headington.

She joined the team at Berinsfield in 1994.