For nearly 200 years, Florence Nightingale’s name has been synonymous with gentle compassion and mercy[1].
In the mid-19th century, Nightingale became perhaps the most celebrated woman[2] of her era – second only to Queen Victoria – for instituting sanitation practices that sharply cut death rates among British soldiers fighting in the Crimean War. A handsome bronze statue[3] in London’s Waterloo Place has immortalized...
A new policy sees people treated in NHS hospital corridors as admissions outstrip beds....