{"web": "", "slide": "<p>Florence Nightingale rigorously observed and recorded her experience and used statistics to help identify best practice. She was a brilliant statistician, one of the first to make use of pie-charts. Her techniques led directly to vast improvements in the hygiene, welfare and health of the British Army and were taken to the Army in India.\n</p>\n<p>She met with Queen Victoria who backed her setting up the \u2018Royal Commission on the Health of the Army'. As a result, even during peacetime, deaths in the army reduced. \n</p>\n<p>Next, she turned her attention to the sanitary design of hospitals.\n</p>\n<p>While she had been in Turkey, a fund was set up in her name. By 1859, Florence had \u00a345,000 at her disposal. She set up the Nightingale Training School at St. Thomas' Hospital.\n</p>", "sources": "", "Feedback": "", "title": "Back in Britain"}