Florence Nightingale’s Life and Work Remembered
Thursday, 10th May 2012
A Service to Commemorate the Life of Florence Nightingale was held at Westminster Abbey on Wednesday 9th May 2012 at 6.30pm.
The service, which is held annually to celebrate nursing and midwifery and all staff, both qualified and unqualified working in these services, was attended by Nurses, midwives, health visitors and government ministers.
In his Bidding, the Reverend Professor Vernon White, Canon in Residence, said:
...we thank God for Florence Nightingale, for her enterprise and heroism, and for the example she has left us. We pray that her ideals of compassion, quality of care, and training may continue to inspire and sustain nurses everywhere.
The Address was given by The Right Reverend and Right Honourable The Lord Carey of Clifton PC, Archbishop of Canterbury 1991-2002.
Alan Gibbs, Chairman of Trustees, The Burdett Trust for Nursing, read Isaiah 55: 1-3, 6-13 and Anne Milton, MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Public Health), read Mark 2: 23-3, 1-6.
