Doreen Norton

Doreen Norton, OBE, FRCN (1 May 1922, in Dartford, Kent – 30 December 2007, in Worthing, West Sussex) was an English nurse, in the 1950s she used research to show that the best treatment and prevention of bedsores was removing the pressure by turning the patient. She also helped to design the Kings Fund bed, a new type of hospital bed now widely used. Norton was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing, received an honorary fellowship from the University of the South Bank in London, and a ward in Lewisham University Hospital was named after her. Provided by Wikipedia