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Medics, migration and the NHS

In the 1960s the NHS became Britain’s biggest employer. So to help fill all those jobs, the government brought in thousands of workers from abroad.

  • Photo story

From chef’s whites to medical scrubs

Meet the machinists who have rapidly switched from making clothing for hospitality staff to uniforms for hospital workers.

  • Article

The poetic language of health

When his doctors could only offer phone consultations, James Morland turned to poetry to make sense of the medical terms describing his symptoms and test results.

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Mary Bishop and the surveillant gaze

Writer and artist Rose Ruane explores the paintings of Mary Bishop, created during a 30-year stay in a psychiatric hospital, which speak of constant medical surveillance and censorious self-examination.

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  • A Medical Staff Vounteer
  • A Medical Staff Vounteer
  • Staff and students of the Medical School, Yakusu, Belgian Congo
  • INSTITUTIONS: Medical staff of Gibraltar
  • Wellcome Historical medical Museum, portraits of staff.
  • Interior of ward showing medical staff in observation niche
  • Indian (?) staff packing medical supplies. Photograph, 1900/1920 (?).
  • National Institute of Medical Research: the staff. Photograph, 1940.
  • Clinical lectures and reports by the medical and surgical staff.
  • A uniformed soldier from the army medical staff. Watercolour, 1886.
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