Innovations and improvements

During the war, the first hospital train was built and Isambard Kingdom Brunel designed the first prefabricated hospital. W.H. Russell's reports for The Times revealed the true depth of mismanagement and suffering in army, particularly during the winter of 1854.

The dreadful conditions and lack of medical supplies for troops caused a public outcry and led to Florence Nightingale being appointed to introduce female nurses into the Military Hospitals in Turkey.

After the war, she wrote a report and used statistical evidence to prove that more men had died from disease than from their wounds. She instigated a Royal Commission into the health of the army, which led to many reforms.