Stories
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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.
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Between sickness and health
In early 2020, the subject Will Rees was studying – imaginary illnesses – took on a new relevance as everyone anxiously scanned themselves for Covid symptoms each day. But this kind of self-scrutiny is nothing new, as he reveals.
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Two health centres, two ideologies
Two futuristic, light-filled buildings aimed to bring forward-looking healthcare to city dwellers. But the principles behind each were very different.
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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.
Catalogue
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The removal of cadaveric organs for transplantation : a code of practice drawn up by a Working Party on behalf of the Health Departments of Great Britain and Northern Ireland / [prepared by the Department of Health and Social Security and the Central Office of Information].
Great Britain. Department of Health and Social Security.Date: 1979- Journals
DHSS handbook of research and development / Department of Health and Social Security.
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Explanatory memorandum on the Social Security Bill 1972.
Date: [1972]- Books
Second survey of aircraft noise annoyance around London (Heathrow) Airport / prepared by MIL Research Ltd. for Social Survey Division, on behalf of the Department of Trade and Industry.
Date: 1971- Journals
Hospital in-patient enquiry. Main tables / Department of Health and Social Security, Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, Welsh Office.
Date: 1978-