Charles, Diana, and Great Ormond Street Hospital
In Part 4 of the Hospital Charity takeover, Agnes Arnold-Forster traces the history of Great Ormond Street Hospital’s fundraising campaigns and the Royal Family’s involvement in them
The visual culture of annual reports: charity in an NHS hospital
In Part 3 of the Hospital Charity takeover, Hannah Blythe analyses United Sheffield Hospitals’ annual reports and explores the boundary between charity and state-funded healthcare in the first decades of the NHS
The Time of Care: Conference Review
In the final post of the Waiting Times takeover, Kelechi Anucha and Stephanie Davies reflect on discussions emerging from the Time of Care conference. Towards the end of March 2023, around seventy people gathered
The “Meanwhiles” of Post-War Cultures of Care
In the second of the Waiting Times takeover, Kelechi Anucha reflects on the temporality of the ‘meanwhile’ and how it operates in post-war spaces of care In the animated comedy television series SpongeBob SquarePants,
Cultural Diversity: Walking the Biomedical Tightrope
Bob Simpson considers the cultural diversity of NHS doctors, offering the image of the doctor as tightrope walker.
Crowdfunding Healthcare in Shetland: Maakin the NHS
Ellen Stewart reflects on how a Shetland community are using traditional knitting to crowdfund an MRI scanner
Cultural Diversity: Walking the Biomedical Tightrope (Reflection on Simpson III)
Specialist Registrar Amy Belfield reflects on Bob Simpson’s essay, ‘Cultural Diversity: Walking the Biomedical Tightrope’. For Simpson’s original essay, click here. For a reflection from Emergency Medicine Registrar Miriam Saey Al Rifai, click here. For a reflection from academic neurologist and
Private Islands in COVID-19
Lottie Hughes reflects on the public, the private – and Kim Kardashian – during the COVID-19 pandemic
Of Monsters & Men: A Tragedy in Three Parts
Today’s rhetoric around heroism signifies the failure of prevention and neglect of the public health, argues Guddi Singh, a paediatric doctor and PhD candidate in philosophy at King’s College London.
Nostalgia and the NHS
Chelsea Saxby reflects on public feelings about the NHS through TV viewers’ nostalgia for inter-war GPs What might audience responses to a ‘feel good’ Sunday night drama, set in the Scottish Highlands between the