Key Information
Reference code
K/PP149/8/2
Title
Badges and medals, 1944 and 1979-2000
Date(s)
- 1979 - 2000 (Creation)
- 1944 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
2 boxes
Scope and content
Medals, badges and awards presented to Cicely Saunders throughout her career, including: her Nightingale badge received upon qualifying as a nurse, Nightingale Training School, St Thomas' Hospital, 1944; a British Medical Association (BMA) gold medal, 1986; a medal awarded by Polskie Towarzystwo Opieki Paliatywnej Oddział We Włocławku (a society for palliative care, Wloclawek, Poland); a medal awarded by the International Association for the Study of Pain, 2000. Nightingale badge and medal commemorating a visit to Poland by Pope John Paul II in 1987 ON LOAN AT ST CHRISTOPHER'S HOSPICE (from 12 JUNE 2015).