Military Nurse.

The Military Nurse website is dedicated to all the military nurses, in and out of uniform, in the United States and throughout the world. It is an informative resource, and is particularly rich in military nursing history.

Codling, Stella 1918-2011 Health visitor, North Yorkshire Health Authority.

Stella May Codling, who has died aged 93 in Whitby Hospital, had been a fever nurse, theatre nurse, outpatient sister and midwife, but most of all she loved health visiting.

Shirley Graham-Paul.

Cynthia 'Shirley' Graham-Paul, a community midwife in Reading, Berkshire and a founding member of the Friends of Mary Seacole, has died aged 73.

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From 1753 until it closed in 2009, the Royal Haslar Hospital in Gosport, Hampshire, treated 'sick and hurt seamen' of the Royal Navy, service men and women, and the people of Gosport and the surrounding area.

Obituary.

Delegates at RCN congress in Harrogate gave a rousing minute's applause in tribute to Khalil Dale, the English nurse and college member kidnapped and murdered in the Pakistan city of Quetta, near the border with Afghanistan.

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It was not only sailors, soldiers and air crew who set sail with the task force to the Falkland Islands 30 years ago. The hospital ship Uganda had a contingent of nurses and sisters from Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service.

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An emergency air ambulance takes off every ten minutes on average in the UK. Forty per cent of the calls are for road traffic accidents, 24 per cent are for other medical emergencies and 2 per cent are for hospital transfers.

Hettie Hopkins 1919-2012 Secretary of the RCN Welsh board 1963-78.

Hettie Hopkins was a nurse leader and campaigner who was active in the RCN until her death.

Obituary.

As a sister in Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service, Dora Thornburn, who has died at the age of 90, nursed back to health two Belgian heroes of the Resistance.

Hunston, Connie 1920-2010 Ward sister and lay preacher.

Connie Hunston (née Duckhouse), who died in September at the age of 90, was a long-serving ward sister and lay preacher in the West Midlands.

Wilson, Kathleen 1922-2010 Nurse, lecturer, author and editor.

Kathleen Wilson OBE, who has died aged 87, wrote a number of books during a distinguished career.

Soul music.

'I t's just like being in church.' So say those who listen to a CD of favourite hymns produced by the Dementia Services Development Centre at Stirling University. The CD features recordings of hymns sung by ordinary congregations, not choirs, and sung at a slower pace which older people, including those with dementia, can keep up with. The CD is in demand from nursing and care homes, and from personal carers as well.