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Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association

Categories: Medicine, Social Welfare

Originally established by John Wilder to support psychiatric patients on discharge from hospital at a time when the Mental Health Act meant that psychiatric hospitals were being closed and replaced by 'care in the community'.  In 2010 PRA Services changed its name to The Centre for Better Health.  Now, 2013, based in Darnley Road, E9.

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Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association

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Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association

Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association, founded October 1959, acquired and oc...

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Sir John Pringle

Sir John Pringle

Military physician. Born Roxburghshire, Scotland. Studied in Flanders/Netherlands, where he later returned in his role as military physician, and Paris. Instituted sanitary reforms first on battlef...

Person, Armed Forces, Medicine, France, Netherlands, Scotland

1 memorial
St George's Hospital

St George's Hospital

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Group, Medicine

3 memorials
Jerwood Medical Education Centre

Jerwood Medical Education Centre

From the picture source website: "The Jerwood Medical Education Centre was designed by Carden & Godfrey Architects to blend in with the surrounding Georgian and neo-Georgian buildings. ....The ...

Group, Education, Medicine

1 memorial
James Robinson

James Robinson

Pioneer of anaesthesia and dentistry. Our picture source gives much information about his life and the circumstances of his death. He was born on 22 November 1813 in Southampton, Hampshire. On 12 ...

Person, Medicine

1 memorial
Alice Ball

Alice Ball

From LSHTM: "... African American chemist who developed an injectable oil extract which became the treatment for leprosy until the 1940s. While chaulmoogra oil had previously been used for leprosy,...

Person, Medicine, Science

1 memorial