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Nurses in 1948 Click the links below for a special series of interviews with the first cohort of NHS nurses

'You could see that the NHS would be a good thing for the country'

'You could see that the NHS would be a good thing for the country'

Louise Tweddell talks to Barbara Barry, part of the first generation of NHS nurses, about life as a midwife in 1948
  • Published:10 February 2008 13:50
Memories of a real Eastender

Memories of a real Eastender

Louise Tweddell talks to Margaret Reading about her career working in some of London's poorest areas
'I am pleased to have been part of the NHS... I never regretted one minute of it'

'I am pleased to have been part of the NHS... I never regretted one minute of it'

From Queen's Nurse to district superintendent, Anna Delahunty still remembers the 'wonderful' feeling of not charging patients for care

Training to be a new nurse in a new service

Doris Morris, who started on £2.58 a month, still has faith in the health service she worked for in 1948

Things were better for nurses, not just patients, under the NHS

First inspired by third world nurse shortages, Stephanie Leslie was in the NHS from the very beginning till 2003