title: Service in progress.
abstract: The Hyacinth Lightbourne Visiting Nursing Service in Jamaica, established in the mid-1950s with help from the Queen's Nursing Institute, brought home care to people who would otherwise have been reliant on inaccessible or inappropriate hospital services.
authors.affiliation: Anglia Ruskin University.
authors.forename: Maurice
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wakeham
mesh_terms: D005381:Financing, Organized; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006701:Home Nursing / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history* / Q000458:organization & administration; D007563:Jamaica