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100 years of female frontline medics: From WWI's 'Suffragettes Hospital' to today's NHS

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Generations of selfless women have risked their lives during wars, terror attacks and pandemics – here we trace their heroic history A little over 100 years before NHS Nightingale opened in London’s ExCel conference centre last month, another temporary hospital sprang up in the capital with equally impressive speed.

Endell Street Military Hospital was established during the First World War in a derelict Victorian workhouse near Covent Garden (rumoured to have been the inspiration for the one in Oliver Twist), and the race to finish it was so last-minute that workmen were still labouring when convoys of injured men began pouring in from the battlefields.

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