The Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care at King's is a world-leading centre for applied and allied healthcare, clinical research, and education. Our focus is on training the healthcare leaders of the future, with a strong commitment to providing post-qualification programmes of the highest quality.  We are the top nursing faculty in the UK, ranked 2nd in the world (2023 QS World University Rankings). 

Our faculty is directly descended from the training school Florence Nightingale set up at St Thomas’ Hospital in 1860. Our Cicely Saunders Institute was established in 2010 with the international charity she founded and is the world’s first purpose-built institute for palliative care.