Stories
- Article
Guerrilla public health
From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.
- 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.
- Article
NHS Blue: the colour of universal healthcare
The 1980s and 1990s saw ideas from the world of business infiltrating the NHS, including the introduction of an internal market, followed by a corporate branding exercise.
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Fees, funding and the NHS
In the 1950s, dramatic political battles over NHS charges brought down a government. But public confidence in the service still grew.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Dale, J - Dews
Date: c.1940-1984Reference: PP/MLV/C/4/3Part of: Vogt, Dr Marthe Louise (1903-2003)- Archives and manuscripts
Society of Medical Officers of Health
Society of Medical Officers of HealthDate: 1856-1998Reference: SA/SMO- Archives and manuscripts
Company-wide Newsletters & Journals (internal)
Date: 1942 - 2000Reference: WF/M/PB/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
William Bartholomew - Theme on Punch - Pandemonium
Date: c.1875Reference: DGH1/7/3/1/23Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 3
Date: December 1898 - January 1900Reference: WF/E/03/03 (copy, part 2)Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd