Claire - Interview 06  

Claire - Interview 06

Age at Interview: 52
Sex: Female
Background: Claire works as an NHS manager in a big acute trust. She is single. Ethnic background/nationality: White British.

Brief outline:Claire was invited to take part in the UK Biobank, and was happy to take part. She is very interested in supporting medical research.

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Claire - Interview 06
Claire only realised when she arrived at the UK Biobank that her appointment might take up to two hours. She had to be home in time to take the cake she was baking out of the oven.

 



And so on the morning I - it was an early, made an early morning appointment. I did as I usually do on a Saturday, I whipped up a cake, a rich fruit cake, whacked it in the oven and then went off to the appointment. And as I arrived, drove to the appointment, which is only about ten minutes’ drive away, I read on the paper where was I supposed to go, and of course I saw it said, “You’ve got to allow two hours for this.” So I thought, “No way is this going to be able to take me two hours”.
 
But of course I’d got my cake in the oven, so I knew couldn’t take very long and so I knew I was under pressure, and it probably would have been better if how long you’ve got to give was a bit more prominent. On the other hand, I wonder, if I’d have read that, whether I would have done it, because I thought I was going to pop along, give a blood test, answer a few questions and whip away. And if it said two hours would I still have done it? So all in all for me, being a person that rushes around doing everything, it happened to work out for the best. And at no stage did I have to wait for anything, although I did talk to one woman at the end who said to me, “How long have you been here? Because I’ve been here a long time, two and a half hours.” And I said, and I hadn’t because I’d whizzed through the whole thing, so I was in there for an hour and a half, and so I got home and got the cake out, which was fine.

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