Stories
- 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.
- 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
London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
- Article
The problem of the punctured heart
During World War II a young American surgeon working in England perfected shrapnel-removal techniques that saved dozens of lives. Discover how one case sealed his reputation as the founder of cardiac surgery.
Catalogue
- Books
The hospital almoner : a brief study of hospital social service in Great Britain / prepared by a committee of the Hospital Almoners' Association.
Date: [1935]- Books
The hospital almoner : a brief study of hospital social service in Great Britain.
Date: [1932?]- Archives and manuscripts
The International Albert Schweitzer Symposium in Cambridge, Sep 1983 (organized by the Dr Schweitzer's Hospital Fund of Great Britain)
Date: 1982-1983Reference: WTI/SGB/G.7/1Part of: Browne, Stanley George, CMG, OBE, MD, FRCS, FRCP, DTM (1907-1986)- Videos
Cyclopropane.
Date: 1974- Videos
Vinyl ether.
Date: 1974