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Paulette Bolton is since of the recognition for contributions to patient care

A nurse who left the school, to nine, to her dying grandmother, and went on to the three degrees was ordered a MBE.

Paulette Bolton, of Sutton Coldfield, migrated to the UK from Jamaica at the age of 15, and to read and write, taught himself the English dictionaries.

she has been recognised in The Queen 's New Year Honours for services for the care of patients.

The 68-year-old said she was "very surprised".

This photo shows her at the age of 16, shortly after she came to the Kingdom of

Ms Bolton said she had been raised from a baby by her grandmother, Mathilde Scarlett, which she described as "my whole world".

she cared for her grandmother after she suffered a stroke and, after her death, to the UK came To Live with her father.

She Said : "I have a lot of education. It was very hard, really.

"It was racism, the children were not used to a black person in the class, and at home it is difficult.

"But sometimes these things make you stronger, what you want to do. "

she began training as a cadet nurse at the 17 and Wolverhampton since the completion of the universities of Birmingham and Sheffield.

the Ms Boltenhagen also trained as a midwife, health visitor and Mental Health nurse, while raising her Two Children as a Single Parent .

later, she became The First Afro-Caribbean-a nurse appointed as nurse representative on the Board of Directors of the Ladywood Primary Care Group.

Ms Bolton, pictured as a young nurse, still working full-time in a medical practice

you are also one of The First qualified nurse practitioners, nurse prescribing was, doctors in Birmingham, and for better treatment for people with drug dependence, the homeless and people with Mental Health problems.

grandmother-of-two-Ms Bolton, the full-time Medical practice, which she helped grow from 200 patients to More Than 5,000 works, with Enki, and said they still loved their work.

"Our patients are awesome, and I think that if I inspired these things, my grandma got me. "

Tonya Bolton praised her mother's "extraordinary strength of character"

Ms Bolton was nominated by her daughter, Tonya .

She Said : "in order to survive, your special strength of character, against enormous odds, and their outstanding contributions to the dramatic progression of patient care within the Birmingham health service that it deserves to be celebrated and acknowledged. "

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Source of news: bbc.com