scholarly journals “Very Nearly an Armful!”: British Post-War Comedy and the NHS

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (18) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Matt Melia
Keyword(s):  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
National Health ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Ideological Debate ◽  
Post War ◽  
Ideological Tensions

While much has been written on post war British film and television comedy, there has been no critical focus on one of its key sub-genres – the medical comedy. This article aims to fill (at least some) of the gap in this scholarship. It chooses to focus on how several key medical comedies engaged the politics and ideological tensions of the fledgling National Health Service from the late 1950s to the 1980s. It will focus on the microcosmic representation of medical architectures and environments and consider how they provide spaces for political and ideological debate.

Visions of utopia: markets, medicine and the National Health Service

Legal Studies ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 376-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Harrington
Keyword(s):  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
National Health ◽  
Fiscal Crisis ◽  
Social Critique ◽  
Medical Work ◽  
Healthcare Provision ◽  
Post War ◽  
Richard Titmuss ◽  
War Medicine

Legislative restrictions on the sale of organs, gametes and surrogacy services are often seen as having no basis other than mere prejudice or taboo. This paper argues instead that they can be read as instances of a broader decommodification of healthcare provision established in Britain with the creation of the NHS in 1948. Restrictions on the marketisation of medicine were justified by Aneurin Bevan, the founder of the NHS, and by Richard Titmuss, one of its chief academic defenders, in distinctly utopian terms. On this vision, the NHS would function as a utopian enclave prefiguring an idealised non-capitalist future. This commonsense of post-war medicine was fatally destabilised by fiscal crisis and social critique in the 1970s. Influential commentators like Ian Kennedy developed an anti-utopian account of the real NHS and proposed legalistic and market-based reform. These reforms sought to dissolve the enclave, assimilating medical work and the NHS as a whole to broader systems of accounting and accountability. Insofar as they have been realised, they achieve a recommodification of medicine in Britain. The paper concludes by examining recent studies of the ‘new NHS’, which see in the latter-day idealisation of market processes a novel form of self-denying utopianism.

Migrant Architects of the NHS

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian M. Simpson
Keyword(s):  
General Practice ◽  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
South Asian ◽  
National Health ◽  
First Generation ◽  
British Society ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War ◽  
Oral History Interviews

The NHS is traditionally viewed as a typically British institution; a symbol of national identity. It has however always been dependent on a migrant workforce whose role has until recently received little attention from historians. Migrant Architects draws on 45 oral history interviews (40 with South Asian GPs who worked through this period) and extensive archival research to offer a radical reappraisal of how the National Health Service was made. This book is the first history of the first generation of South Asian doctors who became GPs in the National Health Service. Their story is key to understanding the post-war history of British general practice and therefore the development of a British healthcare system where GPs play essential roles in controlling access to hospitals and providing care in community settings. Imperial legacies, professional discrimination and an exodus of British-trained doctors combined to direct a large proportion of migrant doctors towards work as GPs in industrial areas. In some parts of Britain they made up more than half of the GP workforce. This book documents the structural dependency of British general practice on South Asian doctors. It also focuses on the agency of migrant practitioners and their transformative roles in British society and medicine.

Minister of Reconstruction, 1943-1945

2020 ◽  
pp. 231-266
Keyword(s):  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
National Health ◽  
White Paper ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
The Public ◽  
Post War ◽  
Set Up

The remaining diary extracts and correspondence, thematically arranged, with extensive footnotes identifying newspaper coverage of Woolton’s policies and actions on moving to set up and manage the new Ministry of Reconstruction. Woolton ceased keeping his Diary on moving to Reconstruction, but in the few diary entries he made covering the period of transition, his entries reveal his emotions on leaving the Ministry of Food and his opinion of his successor, as well as some indication of the reactions of Ministry staff in London and Colwyn Bay on his departure. Also briefly covered is the initial sense of challenge in establishing the new Ministry. These entries and his correspondence reveal Woolton’s thinking about the role of the new Ministry, and his own one as Minister. What is also revealed is his consciousness of the importance of the Ministry and the Minister acting as a non-party forum for the discussion of post-war reconstruction. His relations with Churchill and Attlee, and his continuing (if low key) engagement with the public are also revealed. The chapter reveals the evolution of the key cross-party white papers outlining plans for post-war reconstruction, including the wartime white paper on a future National Health service.

scholarly journals Neither Physicians Nor Surgeons: Whither Neuropathological Skill in Post-war England?

2015 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 404-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Kathryn Schoefert
Keyword(s):  
Biological Sciences ◽  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
National Health ◽  
Small Field ◽  
Post War

Neuropathologists constituted a small field in post-war England, perched between neurology, psychiatry, neurosurgery and pathology, but recognised as a discrete field of expertise. Despite this recognition, the success of the neighbouring fields of neurosurgery, psychosurgery and neurobiology, and the consultant status granted to pathologists in the National Health Service, neuropathologists struggled to stabilise their field. A discourse of skills, acquired and acquirable, became central to their attempts to situate the field in relation to surgeons’ handicraft, physicians’ diagnostic acumen and the technologies of the biological sciences.

Advanced Nursing Practice in Großbritannien – eine persönliche Schilderung

Pflege ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 417-423
Author(s):  
Elke Keinath
Keyword(s):  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
National Health ◽  
Nurse Practitioner ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Advanced Nursing Practice

Im Artikel werden persönliche Erfahrungen als Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) in der Thoraxchirurgie im National Health Service (NHS) in Großbritannien geschildert. Die tägliche Routine wurde von sieben Kompetenzdomänen bestimmt, nämlich: Management des Gesundheits- und Krankheitszustandes des Patienten, Beziehungen zwischen Pflegeperson und Patient, Lehren und Unterrichten, professionelle Rolle, Leitung und Führung innerhalb der Patientenversorgung, Qualitätsmanagement sowie kulturelle und spirituelle Kompetenzen. Diese Elemente wurden durch die Zusatzqualifikation, selbstständig Medikamente verschreiben und verordnen zu dürfen, erweitert, was dazu beitrug, eine nahtlose Erbringung von Pflege- und Serviceleistungen zu gewähren. Die Position wurde zur zentralen Anlaufstelle im multi-professionellen Team und stellte eine kontinuierliche Weiterführung der Pflege von Patienten und ihren Familien sicher – auch über Krankenhausgrenzen hinweg.

76-OR: UK 1st National Health Service (NHS) EndoBarrier (EB) Service for Uncontrolled Diabesity: 2-Year Outcomes for All 62 Treated Patients

Diabetes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 69 (Supplement 1) ◽  
pp. 76-OR
Author(s):  
ROBERT E.J. RYDER ◽  
MAHENDER YADAGIRI ◽  
SUSAN P. IRWIN ◽  
WYN BURBRIDGE ◽  
MELANIE C. WYRES ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
National Health
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