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We need less ‘sickle cell warriors’ and more allies

Rejecting the epithet “warrior”, Cheryl Telfer describes the pervasive effect sickle cell disease has on her life, and calls for more people to donate blood to help sicklers.

  • Article

Fees, funding and the NHS

In the 1950s, dramatic political battles over NHS charges brought down a government. But public confidence in the service still grew.

  • Long read

The ambivalence of air

Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.

  • Book extract

Why the NHS is worth saving

In this extract from his latest book, ‘Free For All’, Dr Gavin Francis poses challenging questions to be addressed if a health service that’s free for all at the point of use is to remain possible.

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  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a street corner with hospital buildings and people. Photograph.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: children in a ward with nurses and a doctor (?). Photograph.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: children patients, nurses and doctors sitting on a balcony in the sunshine. Photograph.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a ward for children, protected by bars, with patients, doctors and nurses. Photograph.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a woman (nurse?) with bowls and cotton wool etc. on a sideboard. Photograph.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a courtyard with (right) back of entrance gateway, (left) a building with pilasters and steep entrance steps. Photograph.
  • Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City. Wood engraving.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: male patients (criminal insane?) in bed in ward, prison bars in foreground guarded by policeman. Photograph.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a cell with bed seen through doorway. Photograph.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a wharf on the East River with buildings. Photograph.
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