Handmaidens no more: Nurses rock

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Handmaidens no more: Nurses rock

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Lucy O'Hagan

Portrait of a Nurse
The old Practice Nurse Subsidy made it cheaper to employ a practice nurse than a receptionist or even a cleaner, so nurses often did little nursing but lots of reception, mopping and sellotaping. Good Samaritan - Gabriel Nicolet, 1914–1915. Wikicommons

Lucy O’Hagan takes a look at the history of practice nursing and the future with nurse practitioners

Any patient who saw a nurse also had to be seen by the GP in order to get the money. It gave the impression that the nurse could not move a foot witho