The nurse later co-led a successful campaign to erect a statue of Mary Seacole in June 2016. This was the first named memorial statue of a black woman in the UK. "I can still remember it," she ...

THE STORY of Kofoworola Abeni Pratt, the NHS’s first black nurse, is not widely known, but today it is inspiring nurses to break boundaries in their own careers. Born in Lagos, Nigeria, in 1915 ...

A new Royal Mint coin in honour of a 19th-century Jamaican nurse who cared for British soldiers is the first to feature a named black woman from outside the UK.. Mary Seacole, who had a Scottish ...

A 19th-century Jamaican nurse will become the first Black woman from outside the UK ever featured on a Royal Mint coin. ... the first statue of a named Black female in the UK.

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (WWL) has been nominated at the Caribbean and African ...

TRAILBLAZER: Kofoworola Abeni Pratt, the first black nurse to serve in the NHS. THE FIRST black nurse to serve in the NHS has inspired the launch of a new programme aimed at addressing the lack of ...