Peopleshistorynhs.org

The NHS explained in eight charts – People's History of …

Most healthcare spending is devoted to curative and rehabilitation care (around 63%). Almost half of total spending is in hospitals, and 15% in the family health services sector, … See more

Actived: 4 days ago

URL: https://peopleshistorynhs.org/the-nhs-explained-in-eight-charts/

Birth Control and the Contraceptive Pill on the NHS

WEBOn the 4 th of December 1961, Enoch Powell, then Minister for Health, confirmed in the House of Commons that ‘birth control pills’, as he called them, could be prescribed on …

Category: Health Go Health

1948: The coming of a “free” health service

WEB69 years ago this week, the NHS was born. Monday 5 July 1948 was the ‘appointed day’ on which of whole raft of Labour’s postwar social reforms came into force. This included …

Category: Health Go Health

An efficient, productive NHS

WEBOne of the most long-standing public policy discussions about the National Health Service revolves around efficiency: its efficiency as a health system and the efficiency of its …

Category: Health Go Health

The Windrush Generation and the NHS: By the Numbers

WEBThe National Health Service is one of the largest employers in the world, and is the largest employer in Britain itself. It relies on a very wide range of professions and occupations to …

Category: Health Go Health

Encyclopaedia – People's History of the NHS

WEBThe creation of the National Health Service in 1948 was the latest in a string of major changes for Britain’s hospitals over the first half of the twentieth century. As a result of …

Category: Health Go Health

Cigarette Smoking: The Nicotine Fix

WEBThe understanding of cigarette smoking as addictive and nicotine as the central addictive component is now well known and seemingly straightforward. Years of anti-smoking …

Category: Health Go Health

About Us – People's History of the NHS

WEBThe People’s History of the NHS asked you to help us research what the NHS means and how it has shaped our lives since its creation. It has been a central part of our bigger …

Category: Health Go Health

Ideology and work in the early NHS

WEBThe early years of the NHS were equally suffused with “ideologies of work”. As the politician most associated with the health service Nye Bevan was one loud voice in determining …

Category: Health Go Health

Branding – People's History of the NHS

WEBThe introduction of an internal market in the NHS in the 1990s was an important factor encouraging the move to branding. It saw the emergence of the blue lozenge symbol, …

Category: Health Go Health

Premature Birth and the NHS – People's History of the NHS

WEBBut premature baby survival rates are also on the rise. Survival amongst those born between 22 and 25 weeks (on average from 1lb to 1lb 6oz in weight) rose from 40% in …

Category: Health Go Health

NHS Glasses – People's History of the NHS

WEBA guest post by Katy Canales, Acting Curator, V&A Museum of Childhood 2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the National Health Service (NHS). It emerged out of the …

Category: Health Go Health

Mental Health – People's History of the NHS

WEBReform of the legislation around mental illness had to wait until the Mental Health Act of 1959. The title of this piece of legislation symbolised the aspiration for integration into …

Category: Health Go Health

Old Age and the NHS – People's History of the NHS

WEBOld Age and the NHS. In 1948 c. 70,000 chronically sick older people occupied beds mainly in former Poor Law hospitals, expected to stay until death, often having suffered strokes …

Category: Health Go Health

Humour and the NHS: Is ‘laughter the best medicine’

WEBThe history of the NHS is full of a range of emotions, feelings and meanings: including moments of laughter and humour. Jokes were shared between staff, patients, and …

Category: Health Go Health

Scotland and the National Health Service

WEBThis ‘relative autonomy’ which Scotland enjoyed in health care matters also allowed for certain innovations prior to the coming of the NHS, the most dramatic of which was the …

Category: Health Go Health

Representation: Who gets a say in the NHS

WEBCitizens had had their say in national elections and the government and its policies on health were the result, end of discussion. It was not until the 1960s and 1970s and the …

Category: Health Go Health

Branding – People's History of the NHS

WEBThe National Health Service is now strictly branded. It has been suggested that the blue NHS 'lozenge' logo is now one of the our most universally recognised logos. However …

Category: Health Go Health

Welfare Foods Poster, c. 1950 – People's History of the NHS

WEBWelfare Foods Poster, c. 1950. says: September 12, 2018 at 10:46 am. Doing research into NHS in 1950’s & trying to find who manufactured the orange juice …

Category: Food Go Health

Top Categories

› Appendicitis

› Gout

› Women's Health

› Thyroid

› Sleep

› Skin

› Sexual Health

› Senior Health

› Oral Health

› Mental Health

› Men's Health

› Medications

› Lung Conditions

› Infectious Disease

Popular Searched

› Health insurance requirements for thailand

› Wisconsin network health benefits

› Health insurance responsibilities australia

› Health equity ez receipts

› Oregon state health authority benefits

› Christ hospital health insurance

› Health equity partial transfer hsa

› Mexico border mental health issues

› Maxim health care online application

› Homestead smart health insurance

Recently Searched

› Heart and health mcmurch

› Savida health patient portal

› Handwashing compliance in healthcare

› Kimberley regional health center map

› Indianapolis family health insurance rates

› Aetna whole health nj provider portal

› Voyage health care employee portal

› The concept of health in nursing

› Senior whole health fax

› Adventist health care medical insurance

The medical information found on the MediWells website is designed to support, not to replace the relationship between patient and physician and the medical advice they may provide.