A group of trainee nurses from the class of ’79 are to meet up for a special reunion.

Eight members of student group 266, who began their nursing training at the old Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham in 1979, are to meet up at the iconic new QEHB in November 2011.

Apart from nurse Susan Earley, who still works at the QE, the others are now scattered across the country, while three of the group have also left the nursing profession altogether.

Susan, who is organising the November 19 visit, said: “We were all part of student group 266 who trained as nurses at the old Queen Elizabeth Hospital and the old General Hospital for three years from 1979.

“There were about 60 in the group altogether but the eight of us have remained friends ever since our training.”

The eight friends meet up on a regular basis somewhere in the middle of the country as one lives in Yorkshire and another close to London.

Susan added: “We met up in Stratford last year and I took pictures of the new Queen Elizabeth Hospital for them to have a look at.

“Their reaction was ‘wow’, so I decided I would arrange for them to come and have a look around.

“Most of us worked at the old QE for a while and then gradually moved away, so it will be the first time back here for most, if not all of them.”