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
The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians
Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.
- 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
NHS Blue: the colour of universal healthcare
The 1980s and 1990s saw ideas from the world of business infiltrating the NHS, including the introduction of an internal market, followed by a corporate branding exercise.
Catalogue
- Books
Report of the Committee on the Working of the Abortion Act.
Great Britain. Committee on the Working of the Abortion Act.Date: [1974]- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Correspondence with the Department of Health and Social Services
Date: 1980 - 1981Reference: SA/FPA/C/F/7/3/3Part of: Family Planning Association- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
FPA Fact Sheets
Date: 1989 - 1990Reference: SA/FPA/C/G/3/16Part of: Family Planning Association- Archives and manuscripts
Communist Party of Great Britain
Date: October 1972Reference: SA/DRS/B/1/96aPart of: DrugScope- Books
A report on NHS abortion services / Abortion Law Reform Association.
Date: 1997