Nursing & Midwifery
Colonel Jane Davis, Vice Lord-Lieutenant of London
Display No. 75
Colonel Jane Davis OBE qualified as a nurse in 1976 and is a highly-decorated individual having served as a Lieutenant in the Territorial Army, a Colonel in Afghanistan and as the Queen’s Honourary Nurse between 2005 to 2009.
She travels widely with the HALO Trust, an international NGO that helps to support the development of training programmes for minefield paramedics.
Image courtesy of Jane Davis
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Nightingale is respected worldwide for her pioneering role in developing the nursing profession, her statistical work, and her evidence-based approach to healthcare. In honour of her bicentenary the World Health Organisation have named 2020 the Year of the Nurse and Midwife.
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