Stories
- 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.
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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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What Black women do when the NHS fails them
Sabrina-Maria Anderson explores misogynoir – hatred of Black women – within the NHS, and how women like her are consequently turning to other sources of medical support.
- 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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
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Correspondence with the Department of Health and Social Services
Date: 1980 - 1981Reference: SA/FPA/C/F/7/3/3Part of: Family Planning Association- Books
Management of financial resources in the National Health Service.
Date: 1978- Archives and manuscripts
Communist Party of Great Britain
Date: October 1972Reference: SA/DRS/B/1/96aPart of: DrugScope- Books
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Report of the Maternity Services Committee.
Great Britain. Maternity Services Committee.Date: 1959- Books
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Maternity services. Volume II, Minutes of evidence.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Health Committee.Date: 1992