Stories
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The poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
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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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Graphic battles in pharmacy
James Morison’s campaign against the medical establishment inspired a wave of caricatures mocking his quack medicine.
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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
- Books
Second report of Nurses Salaries Committee : salaries and emoluments of male nurses, public health nurses, district nurses and state registered nurses in nurseries.
Great Britain. Nurses Salaries Committee.Date: 1943- Books
Report of the Scottish Departmental Committee on the Training of Nurses.
Great Britain. Scottish Departmental Committee on the Training of Nurses.Date: 1936- Books
Report of Midwives Salaries Committee : salaries and emoluments of institutional and domiciliary midwives, non-medical supervisors of midwives and of pupil midwives.
Great Britain. Midwives Salaries Committee.Date: 1943- Books
Report of the Joint Superannuation Subcommittee on Superannuation of Nurses and Midwives.
Great Britain. Nurses Salaries Committee. Joint Superannuation Subcommittee.Date: 1945- Books
First report of Nurses salaries committee : salaries and emoluments of female nurses in hospitals.
Great Britain. Nurses Salaries Committee.Date: 1943