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Former trade union of the United Kingdom

The National Nurses Association (also known as the Association of Nurses) was a trades union for British nurses founded by Thora Silverthorne and Nancy Zinkin in 1937.

It organised a campaign to highlight the poor pay and conditions of nurses with a protest march of 1000 nurses. Silverthorne was attacked by the Royal College of Nursing for “not being a registered nurse” or being “paid by Moscow”. The Association later joined the National Union of Public Employees.

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