Tag: NHS Records and researchEna Clare Sullivan: A Jamaican nurse aboard the Empire WindrushWednesday 29 March 2023Records we hold provide a unique insight into Sullivan’s story after she disembarked at...Records and researchJust a pill: 60 years of the contraceptive pill on the NHSSaturday 4 December 2021On 20 January 1961 Searle & Co wrote to the Chief Medical Officer of...Records and researchPessaries to French letters: Contraceptives before the pillWednesday 1 December 2021On 4 December 1961, the contraceptive pill was introduced on the NHS in the...Records and researchThe NHS at 70, part 2: publicising national healthFriday 6 July 2018Welcome back to this, the second of my short series of blogs celebrating the...Records and researchThe NHS on filmFriday 6 July 2018When the NHS was founded in 1948, film was in at the ground floor....UncategorizedThe NHS at 70, part 1: ‘Here is our chance to do something big’Thursday 5 July 2018Today (5 July) marks the 70th anniversary of ‘the appointed day’, 5 July 1948, when...Records and researchThe Beveridge Report and the foundations of the Welfare StateThursday 7 December 2017‘Now, when the war is abolishing landmarks of every kind, is the opportunity for...