The Queen's Nursing Institute

Party in the Port!
Celebrating 150 years of district nursing: 1859 - 2009

The Party in the Port took place on 3 December 2009 at the Port of Liverpool Building in Liverpool.

It featured: 

• an address by William Rathbone - great-great-grandson of the founder of district nursing
• a new exhibition of photos of nursing throughout the ages
• a demonstration by two Liverpudlian nurses - one dressed in 1970s uniform -  on how nursing has changed in the past 3 decades
  
  and much more, including a raffle and live music!
  
  
  

                 
  William Rathbone; the Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Councillor               
  Mike Storey CBE cutting the cake, Rosalynde Lowe,
  the QNI's Chair and Mark Powell, Chairman of Rathbone
  Brothers plc, which generously sponsored the event.
  
  
  To read the press release, please click here.
  
  To see more photos of the evening, please click here.
  
  To see the raffle prizes, click here.