Stories
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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.
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Confusion, guilt, and the battle to breastfeed
Most new mums are told that breast is best. But breastfeeding doesn’t always come as easily or naturally as you might imagine.
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Birth, babies and boxes of memories
With memories of her baby in neonatal intensive care still fresh, Erin Beeston decides to unearth the poignant objects her family kept following births, going back as far as Victorian times.
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Born in the NHS
Despite underfunding, strikes and scandals, the first two decades of the 2000s has seen the British people’s love of and loyalty to the NHS soar.
Catalogue
- Journals
Midwife, health visitor & community nurse.
- Books
Midwife to a nation : Mme du Coudray serves France / Nina Gelbart.
Gelbart, Nina Rattner.Date: 1993- Books
Midwife, doctor, or doctress? : the New England Female Medical College and women's place in nineteenth-century medicine and society / Martha N. Gardner.
Gardner, Martha N.Date: 2002- Archives and manuscripts
Midwife's register of cases
Miriam BagshawDate: 1948Reference: MS.8015Part of: Miriam Bagshaw's [nursing] lecture notes and midwife's register- Archives and manuscripts
Midwife dismissal case; newscuttings
Date: 1992Reference: PP/WDS/B.1/2/1Part of: Wendy Savage: archives (1935-)