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The State of the Nation: The Political Legacy of Aneurin Bevan (Victor Gollancz, 1997). Goodman, N. Wilson Jameson: Architect of National Health (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1970). Gorsky, Martin. "The British National Health Service 1948–2008: A Review of the Historiography," Social History of Medicine, Dec 2008, Vol. 21 Issue 3, pp 437–460
The history of hospitals began in antiquity with hospitals in Greece, the Roman Empire and on the Indian subcontinent as well, starting with precursors in the Asclepian temples in ancient Greece and then the military hospitals in ancient Rome. The Greek temples were dedicated to the sick and infirm but did not look anything like modern hospitals.
The NHS was established within the differing nations of the United Kingdom through differing legislation, and as such there has never been a singular British healthcare system, instead there are 4 health services in the United Kingdom; NHS England, the NHS Scotland, HSC Northern Ireland and NHS Wales, which were run by the respective UK government ministries for each home nation before falling ...
The hospital as St. Anthony's, 1903. The site was formerly a brickyard before the first medical facility was constructed there. The Sisters of the Poor of St. Francis began construction of St. Anthony's Hospital there in 1890; the Sisters had already been operating St. Francis Hospital (present-day Grant Medical Center), though overcrowding and demand on the East Side propelled the decision to ...
Ohio State East Hospital. The Ohio State Health System includes University Hospital and East Hospital, Ohio State's two full-service teaching hospitals.Other hospitals include Ohio State Harding Hospital, an inpatient and outpatient psychiatric hospital; the Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital, dedicated to the study, treatment and prevention of cardiovascular diseases; Ohio State Brain and Spine ...
Children's Hospital of Columbus Ohio State East Hospital: Columbus: Franklin: 190 Level III 1890 St. Anthony's Hospital Ohio State Harding Hospital Columbus: Franklin: 84 x 1916 Columbus Rural Rest Home Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center: Columbus: Franklin: 900 Level I 1846 St. Francis Hospital Ohio Valley Surgical Hospital ...
In 2015, the UK had 2.6 hospital beds per 1,000 people. [100] In September 2017, the King's Fund documented the number of NHS hospital beds in England as 142,000, describing this as less than 50% of the number 30 years previously. [101] In 2019, one tenth of the beds in the UK were occupied by a patient who was alcohol-dependent. [102]
The earliest state hospitals in the UK were set up in London under the management of the Metropolitan Asylums Board which was established by the Metropolitan Poor Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 6). They supplemented the pattern of voluntary hospitals which had developed in the case of St Bartholomew's Hospital since 1123.