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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 Royal College of Nursing gains its royal charter. In the 1931 Census 138,670 women and 15,000 men declared that they were nurses. 88% of the women were single, 5% married and 7% widowed or divorced. In 1930 nurses in the voluntary hospitals worked 117 hours a fortnight in London and 119 in the provinces.
The College of Nursing Ltd was founded on 27 March 1916, with 34 members, as a professional organisation for trained nurses. [5] On a proposal from Dame Sarah Swift (then matron of Guy's Hospital) and Arthur Stanley, chairman of the Joint War Organisation, developed with Rachael Cox-Davies (matron of the Royal Free Hospital) and Alicia Lloyd-Still (matron of St. Thomas Hospital) the College ...
The Workhouse Visiting Society was set up in 1858 exposed the poor standards of nursing care. [4] The 1867 report to Gathorne Hardy by Uvedale Corbett and Dr. W. O. Markham, after the scandal around the death of Timothy Daly, a resident of Holborn Workhouse Infirmary, recommended that:
The Royal British Nurses' Association was founded in December 1887 by Ethel Bedford-Fenwick, with leading matrons from voluntary, local authority and military hospitals including; Isla Stewart of St Bartholomew's Hospital, Godiva Thorold of the Middlesex Hospital, Miss Hogg of Haslar Hospital and Anne Gibson of Brownlow Hill Infirmary, Liverpool [1] [2]
Nursing and Women’s Labour in the Nineteenth Century: The Quest for Independence (2010) Hay, Ian. One Hundred Years of Army Nursing (1953) McEwen, Yvonne. In the Company of Nurses: The History of the British Army Nursing Service in the Great War (2014) Noakes, Lucy. Women in the British Army: War and the Gentle Sex, 1907-1948 (2006) Piggott ...
In 1918 the new College of Nursing brought together Sparshott and eighty matrons to discuss the state registration of nurses. [9] [16] Thus Sparshott was "actively involved in the formation of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN)", [9] and was its president between 1930 and 1933. [24] She was a "committed supporter of the College and state ...
Before 1914, those who could afford private nursing care were generally looked after in their own homes, but in the 1920s that began to change. In 1921, there were 25,981 patients in nursing and convalescent homes. In the 1931 census, there were 54,920. The standards of nursing care, however, were low. [11]