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.
- Photo story
Obesity and Britain’s boys
Six young men and six experiences of being overweight. Find out how these boys and their loved ones feel about this stigmatising issue.
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Between sickness and health
In early 2020, the subject Will Rees was studying – imaginary illnesses – took on a new relevance as everyone anxiously scanned themselves for Covid symptoms each day. But this kind of self-scrutiny is nothing new, as he reveals.
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Two health centres, two ideologies
Two futuristic, light-filled buildings aimed to bring forward-looking healthcare to city dwellers. But the principles behind each were very different.
Catalogue
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Community mental health services in Northern Europe : Great Britain, Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden / [Sylvan S Furman].
Furman, Sylvan S., 1911-1992.Date: [1965]- Pictures
The roles of the state in the maintenance of health in Great Britain, 1930s-1990s. Prints, photographs, documents.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 804686i- Books
Mental health of children and young people in Great Britain, 2004 / authors: Hazel Green [and others].
Date: 2005- Books
Allocating health resources : a commentary on the report of the Resource Allocation Working Party / M.J. Buxton, R.E. Klein.
Buxton, Martin, 1948-Date: 1978- Books
Management of financial resources in the National Health Service.
Date: 1978