"She preferred the long
Nightingale wards, but we loved the round wards because you could see everyone and reach them easily.
The ward layout was not arranged as a
nightingale ward, which was the usual arrangement for the wards at Prince Henry Hospital.
There is one old
Nightingale ward but we hope to sort that out by the deadline of April 1999."
"If it hadn't been for these men, what kind of upbringing would I have had?" Mr Paterson started his volunteering in the era of the
Nightingale wards of the Princess Louise Hospital for Limbless Soldiers and Sailors, as Erskine was then known.
"In those days, it was the long Florence
Nightingale wards. You could see all the patients and they could see you and the patients would feel sorry for me.
It's time to bring back the old matrons and
Nightingale wards - and put consultants and senior nurses in control of the budget.
xx Linda Lee Bring back
Nightingale wards then patients won't think they are in a hotel.
The huge
Nightingale wards of the hospital have the size to be readily available as large museum rooms.
The wards are as good as something seen in a private hospital and much more flexible than the traditional
Nightingale wards in most older hospitals, which will help stop the spread of infection and enable men and women to be treated separately under the specialist ward they need."
IN 1948, large open-plan dormitory-style wards, called
Nightingale wards, were the norm.
A Greater Glasgow Health Board spokesman said: 'The old Florence
Nightingale wards are really not fit for modern medicine.