Stories
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- 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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- Article
When depression is worse than physical illness
Chronic physical illnesses can be accompanied by troubling depressive symptoms. Elly Aylwin-Foster urges doctors to treat every aspect of her condition with the same care.
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- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
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- 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
- Books
Our life - a conference report.
Date: 1972- Books
Focus on - Acute admissions in adult mental health.
Date: 2006- Books
Focus on - Psychiatric Intensive Care Units (PICUs).
Date: 2008- Books
- Online
Return pursuant to an address of the Honourable House of Commons, dated the 4th of May 1818; for an abstract of returns from the clergy of Scotland, relative to the number of lunatics in that part of the United Kingdom.
Date: 1818- Books
Stockport Arts on Prescription : 1995 - 2005 : a celebration of 10 years of Arts on Prescription in Stockport / [Stockport Arts On Prescription].
Arts On PrescriptionDate: [2005]