All about Peter

I was born in 1957, in Billericay Essex, and lived there until I married Alison in 1980. I went to school in Billericay (Butsbury Infants and Junior and Mayflower Comprehensive) up to the time I took my A levels. In 1976 I started work as a trainee Biomedical Scientist (or Junior Medical Laboratory Scientific Officer as we were then) with what became the Basildon and Thurrock Health Authority by the time I left at the end of 1990 as a Senior Biomedical Scientist. For most of my time I worked at Basildon Hospital and while there I studied for an HNC in Medical Microbiology and the Fellowship Exam of what was then the Institute of Medical Laboratory Scientists (now the Institute of Biomedical Scientists). For a bit of variety I also studied for O and A level computer science and a BTEC in computer studies. I then spent 5 years at the John Radcliffe Hospital and moved to High Wycombe Hospital in 1996.

In 1986 I was diagnosed as having Hodgkin's lymphoma which I was treated for with chemotherapy, at Barts Hospital, and had a splenectomy at the end of my treatment in 1987. During my treatment and for a while afterwards, I worked in the laboratory office, as there was too much of an infection risk for me to continue as a microbiologist while immunosuppresed.

I was brought up as a Christian, at Christ Church Billericay, and made a definite commitment to Christ at a Pathfinder summer camp at the age of 11. Since then I have been involved in various aspects of church life.

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