Though Jane Leighton helped with the writing of A Savage Enquiry, she did not want to have her name on the cover. I was grateful for her encouragement, and we became lifelong friends.
When she retired from the NHS, I asked her to take part in planning a museum to commemorate Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first woman doctor to qualify in the UK. Our group, EGA for Women, had managed to get the original Elizabeth Garrett Anderson hospital building in central London listed, and Unison bought the site. Jane was employed part-time by the union to lead a curatorial team, and was involved in appointing the designers of an exhibition gallery before she bowed out in 2009. It can be visited through the Unison main entrance, on Euston Road, Wednesday-Friday and on the first Saturday of each month, 9am-6pm.