A children’s hospice staff member has joined a new scheme to become the charity’s first nurse associate. Charlotte Tindall, 30, was awarded a place on the Julie Atherton children’s nurse scholarship scheme thanks to her work with Derian House Children’s Hospice. The scheme, launched in 2018 to help tackle the national nursing shortage, was named after the hospice’s much loved former clinical director and trains a new nurse every year, with Ms Tindall the first from Derian House itself. Ms Tindall, of Blackburn, said: “I feel really motivated to succeed on my course to uphold Derian’s outstanding reputation and to make us the best we can possibly be.