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.
- Article
Why are women more willing donors than men?
Why is there a gender imbalance when it comes to the donation of organs, blood and tissue, and what can be done about it?
- 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
- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence - General Meeting and Executive Committee
Date: 14 Feb 1964Reference: SA/CMO/C/68Part of: Association of County Medical Officers of Health and the County Medical Officers Group of the Society of Medical Officers of Health- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence - General Meeting and Executive Committee
Date: 1 May 1964Reference: SA/CMO/C/71Part of: Association of County Medical Officers of Health and the County Medical Officers Group of the Society of Medical Officers of Health- Books
The management of nutritional emergencies in large populations / C. de Ville de Goyet, J. Seaman and U. Geijer.
Ville de Goyet, C. de.Date: 1978- Archives and manuscripts
Manchester: Photographs of Emergency Medical Red Cross Service, Manchester Royal Infirmary, wartime
Date: 1939-1990sReference: SA/HHC/M/10Part of: Harrison-Howell Blood Transfusion Collection- Books
Manual for disaster relief work / Muriel Skeet ; foreword by John H. Knowles.
Skeet, Muriel.Date: 1977