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Community key to good healthcare, says incoming Archbishop of Canterbury
Dame Sarah Mullally, drawing on her nursing background, pledges to focus on safeguarding and community health support amid stretched social and palliative care services.
- On January 28, Dame Sarah Mullally will be installed as the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury and the Church's first female leader, succeeding Justin Welby after his resignation.
- Drawing on her nursing background, Dame Sarah Mullally focused her New Year message on healthcare pressures and aims to bring the care shaping her NHS vocation into ministry.
- At churches like SAINT in Hackney, community lunches provide welcome, health check-ups, and support, while multi‑faith chaplaincy teams at St Thomas' Hospital offer sanctuary and ease anxiety amid stretched services.
- She said safeguarding will receive primary attention as the Church of England considers a complaint against Dame Sarah and follows Justin Welby's resignation over safeguarding failures.
- She said the role of the church should be a healing presence, drawing on nurse and priest experience to oppose the assisted dying Bill amid concerns over underfunded palliative care and insufficient safeguards.
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