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Jagtar, if you were a nurse, you'd realise that equality is for managers and board executives, not for the bulk of NHS staff. I've never felt less like celebrating the role of women in the NHS in the light of my experience as a nurse.

But I might raise a smile if they ever managed to find anyone with the good sense and determination of Florence Nightingale! She'd be lucky to last 3 months in today's NHS - she never toed any party line and could never resist telling it like it was. She'd have been a priority target for another NHS gagging order... but her words from the 1870s still inspire me and her management actually worked for patients.

Imagine that....