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The life and legacy of Florence Nightingale [timeline]

This year, to celebrate the role nurses and midwives play in providing health services across the world, the World Health Organisation has declared that 2020 is the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife. In honour of this, we are taking this opportunity to recognise the work of Florence Nightingale, a British nurse, statistician, and social reformer.

From her early years of training to be a nurse, to her work in improving healthcare for the British Army in India, discover the story of the founder of modern nursing.

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