Ragnhild Sweet-Escott obituary

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Other lives: Counsellor and doctor’s wife who loved the Yorkshire Dales

My mother, Ragnhild Sweet-Escott, who has died aged 89, was one of many women in the 20th century whose lives were devoted to the NHS through marriage to GPs. In the 1950s and 60s, being a doctor’s wife was a job in its own right. While her husband,, visited patients in the Dales and took packed surgeries in Skipton, North Yorkshire, where he worked as a GP, she took out-of-hours calls and dealt with patient queries.

 

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