Why do we not know more about these women? He insisted three years’ hospital experience before starting their Queen’s Nurses. Joe Bell, the Edinburgh surgeon and inspiration for Conan Doyle’s celebrated detective, valued nurses as much, if not more, than doctors and worked with Nightingale to establish hospital training for nurses. Three remarkable women – Christian Guthrie Wright, Louisa Stevenson and Princess Louise, Queen Victoria’s rebellious fourth daughter formed the driving force in Scotland for the QNIS ….along with Sherlock Holmes. The Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI) was established in London and branches in Edinburgh and Dublin. It started as an idea from William Rathbone in Liverpool and was developed with Florence Nightingale for Queen Victoria’s Silver Jubilee. Many of the doctors say that practice in their areas would be impossible without the services of the nurses, and everywhere we are told that co-operation between doctor and nurse leaves nothing to be desired.” A report in 1936 concluded: “The combination of doctor and nurse is extraordinarily impressive. It paid for essential items like houses, telephones, motorcycles and cars.īrilliantly. One of its first actions was to send a nurse to St Kilda.
The state-funded Highlands and Islands Medical Service had already been up and running since 1913. What was it like before the NHS was created in 1948?
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