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.
- Article
NHS strikes and the decade of discontent
When the social unrest of the 1970s spread to the NHS, dissatisfied staff challenged the status quo for the first time in quarter of a century.
- 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.
- Article
Hands-on healthcare
A young hospital volunteer feared her contribution was a long way from the serious business of real healthcare. But time spent painting patients’ nails proved to be a valuable contribution to life on the ward.
Catalogue
- Books
Nursing to-day / Nursing Recruitment Service (King Edward's Hospital Fund).
Nursing Recruitment Service.Date: [1965]- Books
Nursing at University College Hospital, London, 1962-1948 : from Christian vocation to secular profession / Janet Likeman.
Likeman, Janet.Date: 2002- Archives and manuscripts
Queen's Nursing Institute
Queen's Nursing InstituteDate: 1887-1997Reference: SA/QNI- Ephemera
Nursing ephemera. Box 1.
- Archives and manuscripts
Letters from the Superintendent, Brownlow Hill Hospital, Liverpool, re salaries for probationers
Date: 1905, 1906 and 1908Reference: SA/QNI/H.5/1Part of: Queen's Nursing Institute