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Nursing in the United Kingdom is the largest health care profession in the country. It has evolved from assisting doctors to encompass a variety of professional roles. Over 700,000 nurses practice, [1] working in settings such as hospitals, health centres, nursing homes, hospices, communities, military, prisons, and academia.
The History of Nursing in the British Empire - Primary Source Edition (2014) Webster, C. "Nursing and the Crisis of the Early National Health Service," Bulletin of the History of Nursing Group (1985) 7:4-12. White, R. ed. Political Issues in Nursing: Past, Present and Future (John Wiley and Sons. 1985)
The Nurses Registration Act 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5.c. 94) was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom.. It set up the General Nursing Council, and was the culmination of a long campaign led by Ethel Gordon Fenwick to establish a register of nurses.
At the end there is a list of historic nursing organisations. This list is based on the British Library UK Web Archive Nursing Collection. [1] This list does not include any of the 80+ providers of nursing education courses, these can be searched via UCAS. [2] Neither does it include NHS nursing departments or directorates.
The early history of nurses suffers from a lack of source material, but nursing in general has long been an extension of the wet-nurse function of women. [3] [4]Buddhist Indian ruler (268 BC to 232 BC) Ashoka erected a series of pillars, which included an edict ordering hospitals to be built along the routes of travelers, and that they be "well provided with instruments and medicine ...
The NHS was established within the differing nations of the United Kingdom through differing legislation, and as such there has never been a singular British healthcare system, instead there are 4 health services in the United Kingdom; NHS England, the NHS Scotland, HSC Northern Ireland and NHS Wales, which were run by the respective UK government ministries for each home nation before falling ...
[4] Alice Ravenhill was the secretary of the association from 1894 to 1897. It set up a nurses' co-operative, the Chartered Nurses Association, in 1896. In 1905 it employed 120 nurses taking 7.5% of their earnings. [5] The passing of the Midwives Act 1902 encouraged the campaign for registration of nurses. The association helped to set up the ...
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) is the regulator for nursing and midwifery professions in the UK. The NMC maintains a register of all nurses, midwives and specialist community public health nurses and nursing associates eligible to practise within the UK. It sets and reviews standards for their education, training and onduct epic super ...