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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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London, city of lost hospitals

Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.

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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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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.

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  • Appendix to report of the committee for scientific inquiries in relation to the cholera-epidemic of 1854.
  • Appendix to report of the committee for scientific inquiries in relation to the cholera-epidemic of 1854.
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  • Appendix to report of the committee for scientific inquiries in relation to the cholera-epidemic of 1854.
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  • Report of the Medical Council to the Right Hon. Sir Benjamin Hall ... in relation to the cholera-epidemic of 1854.
  • Appendix to report of the committee for scientific inquiries in relation to the cholera-epidemic of 1854.
  • Appendix to report of the committee for scientific inquiries in relation to the cholera-epidemic of 1854.
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