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She became the first specialist domiciliary nurse, working from her own home. The service grew with financial backing from the Macmillan Cancer Relief Society.In 1979, however, Dorothy House opened its first in-patient unit for six people in Bloomfield Road, Bath. "I was met with polite opposition, prejudice, apathy and withdrawal." If many of her nurse and doctor colleagues did not want what they termed a "death house" in Bath, however, Clench had her supporters too.She left the NHS in 1977 to set up the Dorothy House Foundation to care exclusively for the terminally ill. She returned, determined to make Cicely Saunders's type of care there available locally for people suffering from, or as she would put it, "living with" cancer. Throughout her career her very practical faith was her driving force. She was a pioneer nationally and internationally in the hospice movement. She also had small parts in About a Boy, the film of the Nick Hornby novel, which starred Hugh Grant, and in the remake of Alfie, with Jude Law.Toby Whale, the casting director of the National, said: "It is a tragedy.

She was a lovely person, well liked, talented and had the ability to go to the highest levels of her profession.''Ms Trevis added: "I know our profession is given to hyperbole, but it is true to say that she was most sweet natured, very beautiful, fantastically intelligent person and her death is a terrible loss.''. In 1965, aged 23, she had married a patient whom she met in a nursing home where she was nursing. The Rev Brian Clench had been admitted after a car accident in which his wife had been killed.Ten years later she was sponsored by Bath District Health Authority on a month's secondment to St Christopher's Hospice, in London. In the children's ward she befriended an eight-year-old girl with an inoperable brain tumour, the same condition which she herself was to die of aged 62.As Prue Clench, she became a staff nurse on the radiotherapy ward at the Royal United Hospital, Bath.

She then took a "gap year" in Bangladesh, returning to start her nurse training at the Middlesex Hospital, London. She herself died in a hospice.Her mother, who was a physiotherapist as well as a nurse, educated the three sisters and brother at home in Sussex, until they reached secondary school age Prue completed her schooling in Switzerland. In a medical and nursing family Prue, like her eldest sister, turned naturally to nursing as a teenager and with her father a prebendary she not surprisingly entered the ministry later in life. Prue Royle's father and mother met when he was chaplain of Guy's Hospital, London, and she was a nurse there.

Professor Steven Schwartz, vice-chancellor of Brunel University, called for an aptitude test to be a compulsory part of the sixth-form curriculum.. Prudence Elaine Royle, nurse and priest: born Rudgwick, Sussex 28 April 1942; MBE 1983; ordained deacon 2000, priest 2001; Team Minister, Blackdown Hills Team Ministry 2003-04; married 1965 The Rev Brian Clench (two stepdaughters; marriage dissolved 1993), 1997 David Dufour (three stepsons); died Taunton, Somerset 21 August 2004. Teachers would be better able to detect whether pupils were getting outside help.He added that there would be checks to make sure marking standards were maintained. "If all their pupils started getting As for school work, and Us for their external end-of-term exam - for instance - they would lose their chartered examiner status," he said.Dr Ken Boston, chief executive of the QCA, has indicated he supports the idea. He said teachers in other countries were trusted to mark their own pupils' exam work.Mike Tomlinson, the former chief inspector of schools who is heading a government inquiry into 14 to 19 education, is expected to support the idea in his final report next month.* Every sixth-former should have the chance to sit a US-style university entrance test under any shake-up of A-levels, the head of a government inquiry into admissions said. "We've hardly been able to keep pace with inflation and that's been to pay for examination costs," she said.The association is urging the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority - the Government's exams watchdog - to consider a shake-up to the exam-marking system. Under the plan, senior teachers in every school would be trained as "chartered examiners" and then be allowed to mark their pupils' exam work.John Dunford, general secretary of SHA, said the suggested system would help cut down on plagiarism and parents helping to write their offspring's coursework.