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.
- 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.
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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
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Intelligence testing, race and eugenics
Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.
Catalogue
- Books
Air Pollution and Human Health / National Society for Clean Air and Environmental Protection (Great Britain).
National Society for Clean Air and Environmental Protection (Great Britain)Date: 1992- Books
Pharmacy : effective caring / [Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain].
Date: [1993?]- Archives and manuscripts
Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.Date: 1953-1977Reference: SA/MSS- Books
Report for the National Deaf Children's Society on the care of the deaf : a survey of existing provisions for the social welfare, education and medical treatment of the deaf in Great Britain / by J.B. Perry Robinson.
Robinson, J. B. Perry.Date: [1958?]- Archives and manuscripts
National Appeal, 1968/1969
Date: 1968-1969Reference: SA/MSS/A/39Part of: Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland