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The History of District Nursing |
16 June 2009 |
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 Celebrating 150 years of nursing in the community.
In 1858, a Liverpool philanthropist, William Rathbone, employed a nurse, Mary Robinson, to attend his wife at home during her final illness.ÌýAfter her death, heÌýasked Mary toÌýcare forÌýsome of the local poor. She found it rewarding and Rathbone decided to extend the service by providing specialist training for nurses. It was the start of organised district nursing. Jane talks to medical historian, Dr Helen Sweet of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, and Dr Carrie Howse, author of ‘Rural District Nursing in Gloucestershire’ about the history of the service. Jane also speaks toÌý98 year old former district nurse, Irene Sankey M.B.E.
The archive recording of the cinemaÌýappeal for The District Nursing Association is reproduced by kind permission of the Staffordshire Film Archive.
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