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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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.
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NHS Blue: the colour of universal healthcare
The 1980s and 1990s saw ideas from the world of business infiltrating the NHS, including the introduction of an internal market, followed by a corporate branding exercise.
Catalogue
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Heating and ventilation in factories / Factory Department, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
Date: 1952- Books
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Outdoor salad crops.
Date: 1948- Books
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Report of the Committee of inquiry on the rehabilitation, training and resettlement of disabled persons.
Great Britain. Committee of Inquiry on the Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons.Date: [1956]- Books
A national health service / presented by the Minister of Health and the Secretary of State for Scotland to Parliament by Command of His Majesty February 1944.
Date: 1944- Pictures
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A finger-wound being attacked by germs represented by German soldiers in World War II. Colour lithograph after P. Mendoza, 1940.
Mendoza, Philip.Date: [1940?]Reference: 680216i