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
Inside the Cold War mind
Martin Sixsmith explores the competing national psyches of Russia and America, and a world divided between their irreconcilable visions of human nature.
- Photo story
The man who remembers everything
Tilney1 can remember his life in minute detail, but can’t control the incessant intrusion of thoughts and images from the past. As cuts to mental health services isolate him more and more, a crisis approaches.
- Article
The building as tool of healing
When we’re ill, it’s not just medical care that helps to treat us. Architects have discovered that the right environment can play an important part too.
Catalogue
- Books
Salaries of Medical Officers of Health / Horace Swete.
Swete, Horace.Date: 1889- Books
Salaries of whole-time public health medical officers : interim revision of Askwith memorandum.
Date: 1946- Books
First report of Nurses salaries committee : salaries and emoluments of female nurses in hospitals.
Great Britain. Nurses Salaries Committee.Date: 1943- Books
Second report of Nurses Salaries Committee : salaries and emoluments of male nurses, public health nurses, district nurses and state registered nurses in nurseries.
Great Britain. Nurses Salaries Committee.Date: 1943- Books
Supplement to First report of Nurses Salaries Committee : notes on application of scales of salary (with examples) for the guidance of hospital authorities.
Great Britain. Nurses Salaries Committee.Date: 1943