In 2008 the NHS celebrates its 60th birthday. This briefing looks at key health care issues over the last 60 years and forward to its 120th birthday. [Introduction]
The Government is planning controversial changes to the funding of long term care for older people. This important book explores the past and future of policy in this area and reflects the changing balance between the state's and the individual's responsibilities to cover risks associated with ill health and disabilities. ...
This book is published to mark the 50th anniversary of the NHS. It traces chronologically the major achievements and events in medicine, nursing, hospital development, primary health care and health management. The introductory chapter describes the health services in 1948. The next five chapters each cover a decade, and begin ...
It is customary for the Fund's General Council to invite two speakers to talk about aspects of the Fund's work at its general meeting. On 6 June 1986, the first meeting to be held under the Presidency of HRH The Prince of Wales, the subject was the Fund itself. This ...
This book describes the first appointment of the Medical Officer of Health, and sets out the development of the office and its increasing responsibilities and achievements. An epilogue outlines the influences which led to the abolition of the post in 1974. This collection provides a timely opportunity to reconsider the ...
This history begins with the foundation of the Lancet in 1823, and ends in 1982 with the restructuring of the National Health Service, when the management of hospitals in isolation from other health services had ceased. The opening chapters consider the endowed and voluntary hospitals, the poor law infirmaries and ...
St Mark's colo-rectal hospital celebrated its 150th anniversary in 1985. It is the only colo-rectal hospital to survive in Britain and thus is unique. It is also a particularly distinguished example from a class of hospitals that developed in the nineteenth century in London and elsewhere to combat specific diseases, ...
This report is of a forum held at the King's Fund Centre on the study of the history of nursing and the lessons it has for nurses. The four speakers volunteered topics appropriate to the title of the forum. Winifred Hector spoke on the evolution of nursing status, followed by ...
This is a guide to researching the history of nursing covering the research method and the major readings in the discipline of history which will help anyone interested in the history of nursing to develop that interest in the ways most appropriate to them. The first section is concerned with ...
The report contains three main papers read at the forum. Monica Baly spoke of how the Nightingale Fund influenced the development of nurse education. "Education and the nursing system" was the subject of Rosemary White's paper, offering a new perspective for nursing and its structure. Christopher Maggs, in his paper ...