Person    | Male  Born 1914  Died 4/12/2009

Whittington Health NHS

Group, Medicine

Chelsea Hospital for Women

Set up in a house at 178 King's Road, this hospital, like many at the time, quickly found its premises too small. It moved into the first hospital to be built dedicated to gynaecological diseases, ...

Group, Medicine

first anaesthetic in England

Event, Medicine

Henry Stephens

Doctor and Inventor. Born Finchley. He invented an indelible blue-black ink. Not to be confused with his son Henry Charles 'Inky' Stephens.

Person, Industry, Medicine

Commonwealth and African NHS staff

Around 40,000 nurses and midwives from around the Commonwealth, notably Africa and the Caribbean, came to the UK from its inception in 1948 to the mid-70’s to work in the fledgling NHS, which was f...

Group, Medicine, Africa, Caribbean Islands