An HIV clinical nurse specialist is retiring from the NHS after a 36-year career that has mirrored the extraordinary advances in treatment and care for the disease. “This was really the formative part of my learning and experiencing HIV care with non-hierarchical medical and nursing teams treating symptomatic HIV patients,” he said. After moving to West Yorkshire in 2001, he worked as a police custody nurse, spent a year with GlaxoSmithKline as an HIV adherence nurse in Manchester and was a part-time specialist nurse in Lancaster. He subsequently joined Bradford Teaching Hospitals in 2006 as an HIV clinical nurse specialist, with advances in treatment meaning people living with HIV could expect a normal life expectancy. Trust chief nurse Karen Dawber said: “Simon has dedicated his career to caring for people during some of the most challenging periods in HIV care.