The British Hospitals Association was established by

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in 1884. In 1887 it established a register of trained nurses for those who could show that they had worked for at least a year in a hospital or an infirmary and had been trained in the duties of a nurse. It ran a Nurses Co-operative in the early years of the twentieth century which employed 500 nurses and had a turnover of £50,000 a year. Sir Arthur Stanley was chairman in 1924.

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was the chairman in 1941. It was involved in discussions about the organisation of the future National Health Service, particularly about the

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s. It supported the objective of a free comprehensive health service, but warned that transfer of ownership of hospitals would lead to autocratic bodies taking the place of locally elected committees.

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