Staff on the front line at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust consider the lessons they have learned during the pandemic

When the World Health Organization designated 2020 International Year of the Nurse and Midwife, no one could have known that the world’s attention would be fixed on all front-line healthcare workers as COVID-19 spread around the globe. This year also happens to be the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth, a compelling hook on which to hang the first global celebration of nursing.