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As long as hospitals have existed, there have generally been chaplains on hand to help patients and their families come to terms with their illnesses.

More recently, clerics from other faiths - like Islam, and Hinduism - have also been represented.

But now Leicester's hospitals think they've become the first in the country to offer a non religious chaplain.

Jane Flint started work this week, and our reporter Jo Hollis went to meet her on her first day - as well as the head of the chaplaincy team, Mark Burleigh.