Stories
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Guerrilla public health
From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.
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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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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.
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William Bartholomew - Theme on Punch - Pandemonium
Date: c.1875Reference: DGH1/7/3/1/23Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Books
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Report by the Sanitary Committee of Commissioners of Police on the Public Health (Scotland) Bill.
Date: [1849?]- Books
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On some of the relations of the business of the dairy farmer to public health / by James B. Russell.
Russell, James Burn, 1837-1904.Date: 1890- Books
Fair for all : everyone is entitled to fair access to health - this is the founding principle of the NHS : improving the health of ethnic minority groups and the wider community in Scotland / Scottish Executive.
Scotland. Health Department.Date: [2001], ©2001- Books
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A digest of the law of Scotland relating to the poor, the public health, and other matters managed by parochial boards / by John Guthrie Smith.
Smith John Guthrie, 1834-1894.Date: 1878