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.
- Article
Society, not Covid-19, makes us vulnerable
Rick Burgess coped with the death of his mother in February 2020 by immersing himself in the task of protecting his community from Covid-19 and challenging the government's failure to protect and support elderly and Disabled people during the pandemic.
- Article
Medics and the bomb
Would a nuclear attack on the UK overwhelm the NHS? At the height of the Cold War, despite government optimism, medics predicted doom.
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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
'Society of Medical Officers of Health'
Date: 1871-1874Reference: SA/SMO/K.27Part of: Society of Medical Officers of Health- Archives and manuscripts
Society of Medical Officers of Health: correspondence
Date: Nov 1956-Dec 1957Reference: SA/SSM/A/5Part of: Society for Social Medicine- Archives and manuscripts
Society of Medical Officers of Health
Society of Medical Officers of HealthDate: 1856-1998Reference: SA/SMO- Archives and manuscripts
Society of Medical Officers of Health (SMOH)
Date: 1958-1963Reference: PP/NGH/32-37Part of: Harris, Noel Gordon (1897-1963)- Archives and manuscripts
Society of Medical Officers of Health
Date: 21 May 1971Reference: PENROSE/1/13/46Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers