St Helier Hospital - completed 1938–41 in a thirties modernist/Art Deco idiom. Opened during wartime, endured bomb damage, and kept serving. A monumental hilltop presence in South London.

#StHelierHospital #ArtDeco #Modernist #LondonArchitecture #NHSHistory #WartimeLondon

On Call to a Nation Casting real doctors instead of actors, this film uses scripted scenarios and interviews to see the National Health Service through their eyes. (1958)

A 1958 documentary on the 10 year old NHS is fascinating #historyofmedicine. It was controversial amongst GPs, affected urban v rural GPs differently & led to a rise in surgeries with employed staff. Doctors' wives were no longer 'slaves'! #womenshistory #nhshistory www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

The Spirit of ’45 Moving toward the creation of a National Health Service. Britain was the first western country to offer free at the point of use medical care to the whole population. A fundraising event to support th...

Creation of the National Health Service - the model for public health care for all the world over! Join us for a memorable event. 🤩 👍
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#NHSHistory #PublicHealthCare #SocialJustice #HealthForAll #PublicServices #Nationalization

Read the research we have done regarding these 2 portraits in our collections by pastel artist Margaret King in 1782 salisburyhealthcarehistory.uk/two-pastel-p... #NHShistory #CreativeHealth

Photo of nurses taking a break on the Salisbury Infirmary roof terrace with the cathedral in the background. salisburyhealthcarehistory.uk/roof-top-the... #salisbury #nhshistory

A new short post on Tenbury Cottage Hospital. Unusually a Victorian foundation that is still functioning and retains its original buildings, now the NHS's Tenbury Community Hospital. #NHShistory #ArchitecturalHistory #skystorians #history
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Lost Hospitals of Northumberland Over the past few months the Northumberland page has been thoroughly revised and expanded. The page covers hospitals within the current county of Northumberland, there is a separate pages for Tyne …

New post on historic hospitals: wp.me/p62Hk2-39n
It is mostly to alert folks to progress in revising the site, with much work recently to flesh out the Northumberland page.
#skystorians #NHShistory #ArchitecturalHistory #Northumberland #HospitalHistory