Dame Margaret Turner- Warwick was a medical student on the day the NHS launched in 1948. She qualified in 1950. A leading lung specialist, with international honours, she became professor of medicine and later dean at the Cardiothoracic Institute. In 1989 she became the first women to be elected president of the Royal College of Physicians in its 472-year history. She continued her research and writing after nominal retirement and became chairman of the Royal Devon and Exeter Healthcare Trust.

Her daughter, Lynne Turner-Stokes, qualified in 1979 and is professor of rehabilitation medicine at King's College, London, and a consultant specialising in catastrophic brain injury, running the regional rehabilitation unit at Northwick Park Hospital, London. She was the lead clinician in drawing up the NHS's national service framework for long-term conditions and has an international reputation for the development of evidence-based clinical standards.

Her daughter, Tabitha, has just qualified with distinction as a doctor at University College London Hospitals with a double first from Cambridge.