Agnes Arnold-Forster and Caitjan Gainty, “To Save the NHS We Need to Stop Loving It,” Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy 29, no. 4 (2021): 53–61.
Rowena Mason, “Boris Johnson leaves hospital as he continues recovery from coronavirus,” The Guardian, April 12, 2020.
David H. Solkin, “Samaritan or Scrooge? The Contested Image of Thomas Guy in Eighteenth-Century England,” The Art Bulletin 78, no. 3 (1996): 467–84.
John Mohan, “Geography and Social Policy: Spatial divisions of welfare,” Progress in Human Geography 27, no. 3 (2003): 363-374.
Alistair Fair, “‘Modernization of Our Hospital System’: The National Health Service, the Hospital Plan, and the ‘Harness’ Programme, 1962–77,” Twentieth Century British History 29, no. 4 (2018): 547–75.
Charles Webster, The Health Services Since the War, Volume 1: Problems of Health Care: The National Health Service Before 1957 (London: HMSO, 1988).
Quoted in Fair, “‘Modernization of Our Hospital System’,” 547.
Jonathan Hughes, “The ‘Matchbox on a Muffin’: The Design of Hospitals in the Early NHS,” Medical History 44, no. 1 (2000): 21–56.
Fair, “‘Modernization of Our Hospital System’.”
Fair, “‘Modernization of Our Hospital System’.”
National Health Service, A Hospital Plan for England and Wales, Command 1604 (London: HMSO, 1962).
Quoted in Fair, “‘Modernization of Our Hospital System’.”
National Health Service, A Hospital Plan for England and Wales.
Fair, “‘Modernization of Our Hospital System’.”
Fair, “‘Modernization of Our Hospital System’;” Ed DeVane, “Pilgrim’s Progress: The Landscape of the NHS Hospital, 1948–70,” Twentieth Century British History 32, no.4 (2021): 534–552.
Fair, “‘Modernization of Our Hospital System’.”
David Edgerton has critiqued the declinism of Britain’s twentieth-century historiography. David Edgerton, The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-Century History (London: Allen Lane, 2018).
Department of Health for Scotland, Hospital Endowments: Report of the Hospital Endowments Commission (Edinburgh: HMSO, 1955), paragraph 26. See also Bernard Harris and Rosemary Cresswell, “The legacy of voluntarism: Charitable funding in the early NHS,” Economic History Review 77 (2024): 554–583, 574.
TNA MH99/37, “NHS: Appeals for funds, etc.,” para. 2 (18/12/48) (RHB (48) 41A; HMC (48) 25A; BG (48) 23A).
Endowments Committee Minutes, May 1963–March 1968, H09/GY/A/342/005, London Metropolitan Archive.
Endowments Committee Minutes, May 1963–March 1968, H09/GY/A/342/005, London Metropolitan Archive.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
See Victoria Bates, “Cold White of Day: White, Colour, and Materiality in the Twentieth-Century British Hospital,” Twentieth-Century British History 34, no. 1 (2023): 1–37.
Bates, “Cold White of Day.”
“Guy’s Tower,” 1976, H09/GY/A/365/025, London Metropolitan Archive.
Hughes, “The ‘Matchbox on a Muffin’.”