Friday, October 24, 2014
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Nurses at The Royal Star & Garter Home (Richmond) 1916
COHSE had a branch of the Union at the Royal Star & Garter Home from the end of WW2 and NUPE at a later date
Royal Star & Garter Home Matron Miss Elsie Formby (1908 - 2000)
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Saturday, August 16, 2014
WW1 Nurses Joining Up - August 1914
Nurses
wishing to volunteer for active service must do so at the office of the
British Red Cross Society, which is now established at Devonshire House, Piccadilly, London, (now Green Park tube station) by the kindness of
the Duke of Devonshire who has placed the whole of the ground floor at
the disposal of the committee.
Devonshire house is easily identified by
the Red Cross flag which floats over it. Nurses engaged in hospitals or
on the staffs of private nursing institutions or district nursing
associations should first get the assent of the matron or
superintendent.
On inquiring at the medical department of the Admiralty we learn that many applications are made there by nurses of varying qualifications the authorities are not in need of nurses or desirous of enrolling them and it is unlikely that the services will be utilised if offered their.
Many hundreds of applications are also made at the War office. In both instances application should be made through the British Red Cross Society.
On inquiring at the medical department of the Admiralty we learn that many applications are made there by nurses of varying qualifications the authorities are not in need of nurses or desirous of enrolling them and it is unlikely that the services will be utilised if offered their.
Many hundreds of applications are also made at the War office. In both instances application should be made through the British Red Cross Society.
Applications for enrollment in the
international nursing corps of active service in the war, up from three
years certified nurses should be made at headquarters of the
International Council of nurses for 431 Oxford Street London executive
of the National Union of Trained Nurses is desired to offer them to the
central office at 39 Great Smith Street, Westminster as a clearing
house of trained nurse volunteers
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War having been declared the voluntary aid detachments (VAD) have ceased to be under the orders of the British Red Cross Society are now under the local military authorities with whom they are registered. The organisation of the society will be employed to assist any detachment mobilised by Reid furnishing stores and drugs and in supplying hospitals and general comforts
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Canadian
surgeons and nurses who are not attached to
the regular Forces the Territorial Forces or the British Red Cross
Society and who were willing to give their service to the Canadian
voluntary hospital contingent are requested to send their names with
particulars of qualifications and experience to W MacLeod Moore honorary
secretary general buildings order which London WC
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First London General Territorial Hospital opened at St Gabriels College, Cormont Road Camberwell (nurses are all seconded from St Barts but wear the Grey & Scarlet of military nurses
Picture Guy's Hospital nurses leave for the Front - 17th August 1914
Source British Journal of Nursing 15th August 1914
Professional Union of Trained Nurses - First Nursing union - 25 October 1919
Proffesional Union of Trained NursesA meeting to consider the formation of a trade union for trained women nurses a largely attended meeting took place on Saturday (25th October 1919) afternoon at the Mortimer Hall, Great Portland street, London.
Among the objects of the movement, as outlined by Mr. Theodore Goddard, the solicitor who has been advising the organizers, are the promotion of State registration of al trained nurses; the establishment of an employment agency; the securing of a minimum rate of remuneration and maximum working hours; the provision of benefits for members when totally incapacitated; and the abolition of abuses detrimental to their welfare and economic independence.
Miss Maude MacCallum, who presided, said that the movement bad originated in the ranks of the working nurses, and no existing society was responsible for it. She referred to the " unfair competition" of hospitals which were housing and maintaining private staffs and. undercutting the trained nurses in outside professional. work. One large hospital was already sending out nurses at 2 and half guineas a week.
Miss MacCallum moved a resolution that immediate steps be taken to form a professional union. Miss Mac Donald, who seconded, said that never had there been a time of greater crisis for the nurses. Thousands were out of employment because they could not secure a living wage.
STRIKE
The resolution to- form.- union was declared carried by a large majority. A nurse among the audience expressed the hope that any strike clause in the rules would be so framed to ensure that it would be directed against the employers
Proffesional Union of Trained Nurses (PUTN) - the first nursing union estb 25/10/1919
A meeting was held on the afternoon of Saturday 25th October 1919 (inaugural meeting) at Mortimer Hall, great Portland Street to establish a nursing union - The Union for Trained Nurses.
Miss MaCallum moved a resolution that immediate steps be taken to form a professional union. Miss MacDonald seconded stating "never had there been a time of greater crisis for the nurses. thousands were out of employment because they could not secure a living wage"
The resolution to form a union was declared carried by a large majority
Report from the Times newspaper 27th October 1919
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