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Remedies of War

How the Second World War helped to shape the National Health Service.

• 15 mins

Doctors Revolt

How Aneurin Bevan convinced his harshest critics, the doctors, to sign up to his NHS.

• 15 mins

Free Specs & Teeth

The highs and lows that followed the launch of the National Health Service on 5 July 1948.

• 15 mins

Cigarettes & Chimneys

How lung cancer forced the new NHS to ask: should it just treat disease or prevent it too?

• 15 mins

Hip Innovation

How life in the new NHS gave some hospital doctors the time and freedom to innovate.

• 15 mins

Kidney Dilemma

How the life-saving 'artificial kidney' machine brought moral dilemmas in its wake.

• 15 mins

Modern Hospital

How the new 'modern' hospital designs changed the relationships of staff and patients.

• 15 mins

Sexual Health Service

How the contraceptive pill forced the NHS to acknowledge women sexual health needs.

• 15 mins

Scandal

How unsung heroine Barbara Robb exposed glaring gaps in the care of the mentally ill.

• 15 mins

Grave

How Cecily Saunders' 'modern hospice' movement forced the NHS to plan for a 'good death'.

• 15 mins

Cradle

How the NHS responded to the birth of the first test tube baby in 1978.

• 15 mins

Unequal

How the Black Report in 1980 and others exposed inequalities in health in deprived areas.

• 15 mins

Protest

A baby died, wards were closed and nurses went on strike. An NHS crisis in the 1980s.

• 15 mins

The New Plague

How the NHS responded to a new fatal disease, Aids, in the 1980s.

• 14 mins

Policing the Bugs

When MRSA and other hospital bugs hit the headlines, the NHS had to clean up its act.

• 14 mins

Too Much Medicine

Breast screening highlighted the issue of over-diagnosis and over-treatment in the NHS.

• 14 mins

Nurse!

From cleaning bedpans to treating broken bones: how nursing in the NHS has changed.

• 14 mins

Never Enough

The NHS has never had enough money. How have health ministers dealt with it?

• 15 mins

Omnibus 1

The series which traces decisive moments in the history of the NHS.

• 57 mins

Omnibus 2

The series which traces decisive moments in the history of the NHS.

• 57 mins

Omnibus 3

The series that traces decisive moments in the history of the NHS.

• 57 mins

Omnibus 4

The series which traces decisive moments in the history of the NHS.

• 58 mins