Starched sheets, deep-cleaned wards: 60 years on, what has our NHS lost? - Daily Mail 26th May 2008

On July 5, the NHS celebrates its 60th birthday. In the years since its birth there have been incredible advances in medicine, from transplant surgery to chemotherapy drugs. These have greatly improved a patient's chances. But how has the actual experience of being a patient changed? Has it also improved? Drawing on interviews with hospital staff who worked in the NHS at its inception, ANGELA EPSTEIN paints a fascinating portrait of life then and now.

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