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Looks at how health in Britain is monitored, noting that general practices are now run more like businesses, giving doctors greater freedom to offer a wider range of services to patients. People are...
The history of City General Hospital in Stoke-on-Trent. Discusses how it has changed from the days of the workhouse, the changes brought about by the National Health Service and the possible effects of...
What does the transfer from public to private ownership mean for employees, their clients, and the operation of market forces? This programme looks at three cases, the National Freight Corporation, the...
Part three of Bill Douglas’ autobiographical trilogy about his impoverished upbringing in Scotland (the other titles are MY CHILDHOOD and MY AIN FOLK). Leaving a children’s home to become a miner and...
On 5 July 1948, the National Health Service was launched with the proud expectation that it would make the UK the ‘envy of the world’. This collection of programme extracts, party political broadcasts,...
Director Ken Loach uses film from Britain’s regional and national archives, alongside sound recordings and contemporary interviews to present a portrait of the social changes which took place in post-War...
Documentary which tells the story of the thousands of Caribbean and African women who answered the call 70 years ago to come to the UK to save the then ailing health service. [60 minutes]
Looks at institutional changes brought about by the new ‘market’ structure of the National Health Service. The traditionally parallel hierarchies of doctors/nurses/managers are shown as coming under...
Sequel to ASSESSMENT: THE WHOLE SCHOOL POLICY. Draws upon the experience of schools in Sunderland to examine issues relating to assessment, testing, moderation and reporting, in the light of two years’...
Explains the workings of the national health system in Vietnam. Rural health centres are seen functioning as part of the national health system, which makes use of both modern and traditional methods of...
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