Stories
- Article
How hospital care fails disabled bodies
Hospitals aim to make sick people well. But if the sick person is also disabled, the unbending nature of monolithic hospital systems can easily worsen the situation. Here Jamie Hale writes from painful personal experience.
- Article
The father of handwashing
Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.
- Article
NHS strikes and the decade of discontent
When the social unrest of the 1970s spread to the NHS, dissatisfied staff challenged the status quo for the first time in quarter of a century.
- Article
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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Nursing Staff
Date: 1930-1963Reference: DGH1/6/13/2/1Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
Nursing Certificates
Date: 1931-1957Reference: DGH1/6/13/3/6Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Address to the Retreat Nursing Staff by R. Percy Smith MD FRCP Lecturer on Mental Diseases at St Thomas's Hospital and Examiner in Mental Diseases in the University of London
Date: 14 November 1908Reference: RET/5/11/4Part of: The Retreat Archive- Archives and manuscripts
School of Nursing Brochures
Date: 1960sReference: DGH1/6/13/3/3Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
Nursing
Date: 1930-1995Reference: DGH1/6/13Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital