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News : 60 Years of the NHS
An award-winning essay on Nye Bevan , the visionary who brought it into being, and who resigned his cabinet post in 1951 over the introduction of prescription charges.
Also this lecture/video/transcript given at Gresham College by Professor Virginia Berridge of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, on the origins of the NHS.
Anyone wishing to make a contribution to this site may contact me at the address or telephone below or E-mail me. You may have information about nursing locally you wish to share or have photographs of nurses or images relating to nursing, or other nursing memorabilia which you feel may be of use to the researcher.
If you know of someone who is a retired local nurse and who may be willing to participate in the oral history interviewing please contact the researcher to discuss this further.
Your views on the quality and value of the site would be welcomed, and any suggestions of how to improve it.
If you encounter any problems using the site please let me know.
email: g.j.thurgood@hud.ac.uk
Tel: 01484 47 2893
Fax: 01484 47 3238
Publications by Graham Thurgood
The site construction has been helped by the use of the following guidelines and references;
Checklist for an Informational Web Page - by Jan Alexander & Marsha Ann Tate at Wolfgram Memorial Library, Widener University, Chester, PA.USA
Guidelines to EPublishing - South Bank University, London, UK.
The web pages have been created using Dreamweaver software.
The help, advice and technical support of Amy Pearson, Instructional Designer, School of Human and Health Sciences in the creation of these pages is gratefully acknowledged.
The help, advice and technical support of Andrew Teal, Information Technologist, School of Human and Health Sciences in the redesign, on-going maintenance, up keep and further development of this web site is gratefully acknowledged.
This project is supported by a Research Expenses Grant from the The Wellcome Trust and the researcher is grateful for this support from their History of Medicine centre.
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