This exhibition drew on experiences of nurses and patients from Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals, and the Evelina Children's Hospital, to reflect the changing face of hospital life across the decades.

The exhibition presented a human history of medical care, drawing on personal stories, previously unseen objects and new interviews with staff and patients, to build a picture of daily life at the hospitals, from the 1930s to the present day.

'Hospital Voices' was supported by the National Lottery through a Heritage Lottery Fund grant of £49,900 and made possible by funding from Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity (£20,000), Friends of Florence Nightingale Museum and the Nightingale Fellowship.

Among the contributors recalling their many varied encounters with hospital life are politician Tony Benn; Gill Hicks, survivor of the 7/7 London bombings, and one of the nurses who cared for her, deputy ward sister on Luke Ward at St Thomas’s, Louise Danks; the first man to train as a Nightingale nurse, Leslie Graham; military historian and tuberculosis patient Sir John Keegan; Guy’s and St Thomas’s Chief Nurse, Eileen Sills; and writer and broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby.

'Hospital Voices' captured the voices of all contributors, creating an audio archive stretching back to earlier days of the hospitals. Visitors were also invited to contribute their own stories and memories.