Stories
- Article
The birth of Britain's National Health Service
Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.
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London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
- 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.
Catalogue
- Books
The recording of sickness absence in industry : (a preliminary report) / by a Sub-Committee of the Industrial Health Research Board.
Date: [1944]- Books
The acquisition of skill : an analysis of learning curves / by J.M. Blackburn.
Blackburn, Julian, 1903-1974.Date: 1936- Books
A study of personal qualities in accident proneness and proficiency / by Eric Farmer & E.G. Chambers.
Farmer, Eric.Date: 1929- Books
The effects of conditions of artificial lighting on the performance of worsted weavers / by H.C. Weston.
Weston, H. Claude (Hubert Claude)Date: 1938- Books
The incidence of neurosis among factory workers / by Russell Fraser ; with the collaboration of Elizabeth Bunbury [and others].
Fraser, Russell A.Date: 1947