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.
- Long read
Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Emergency Medical Services
Date: Sep 1941Reference: PP/CMW/G.3/1Part of: Lord Moran (Charles McMoran Wilson) (1882-1977): archives- Archives and manuscripts
Emergency Medical Services
Date: 1938-1940Reference: PP/CMW/L.7Part of: Lord Moran (Charles McMoran Wilson) (1882-1977): archives- Books
Emergency medical services : selected bibliography / edited by John H. Noble [and others].
Date: 1974- Archives and manuscripts
Notes by Mr D Ernsting on Woodbine House Public Assistance Institution and Emergency Medical Services Hospital
Date: 1939-1945Reference: GC/251/2Part of: D Ernsting (1913-2007): papers on Poor Law/Public Assistance Institutions- Archives and manuscripts
NHS negotiations and debates, including doctors pay (inc copy of Hansard); also some on Emergency Medical Services
Date: 1939-1961Reference: PP/CMW/N.18/2Part of: Lord Moran (Charles McMoran Wilson) (1882-1977): archives