Preliminary Training School

Jacqueline Fernell is Senior Lecturer for Pre-Registration Nursing at the University of Worcester's Instutute of Health & Society #histmed #nursing #GMMedicalMuseum Transcript: "We obviously started in what they used to call PTS - Preliminary Training School - and ours was held at Walton Hall which was a big, er, Stately Home outside Liverpool. Um you were there for, I don’t know whether it was 6 or 8 weeks, you lived in there, all the new students were all together, we were taught there and then after about 5 weeks you started to have daily visits to the hospital." (c) Charles Hastings Education Centre R2015.001.0003