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 child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
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Intelligence testing, race and eugenics
Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.
- 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
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Conditions of service : [1st April 1972] / Whitley Councils for the Health Services (Great Britain), General Council.
Whitley Councils for the Health Services (Great Britain). General Council.Date: 1972- Archives and manuscripts
Whitley Council for the Health Service (Great Britain)
Date: 1950Reference: SA/BMA/F.162Part of: British Medical Association- Books
Haemoglobin levels in Great Britain in 1943 (with observations upon serum protein levels) / by the Committee on Haemoglobin Surveys.
Date: 1945- Books
Conditions of service : 1st August 1964 / Whitley Councils for the Health Services (Great Britain) General Council.
Whitley Councils for the Health Services (Great Britain). General Council.Date: [1964]- Books
An investigation into the epidemiology of phthisis in Great Britain and Ireland / [by John Brownlee].
Date: 1918