Let's celebrate contemporary black nurses, not create a modern myth
Journal: Journal of Advanced Nursing
Year: 2016

The history of the National Health Service in Britain is a history of immigration. Many of the hospitals taken over by the NHS in 1948 were in a dilapidated state, and staff shortages were reaching critical levels. From the 1950s onwards, thousands of young women and men were lured to nursing in Britain from the pink-shaded areas of the globe – the former colonies of the West Indies, the Indian subcontinent, Mauritius, Malaysia and great swaths of Africa. As nurse training places were decreasing