An editorial is presented which discusses Florence Nightingale (1820–1910), the bicentenary of her birth on May 12, 2020, has been long anticipated;few of us could have foreseen that this birthday would come at a time when a swathe of new temporary hospitals bearing her name had been set up in the UK—the NHS Nightingale Hospitals, intended to support the response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Celebrating the bicentenary of Nightingale's birth and her legacy