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‘Save our NHS’ : activism, information-based expertise and the ‘new times’ of the 1980s

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Crane, Jennifer (2018) ‘Save our NHS’ : activism, information-based expertise and the ‘new times’ of the 1980s. Contemporary British History, 33 (1). pp. 52-74. doi:10.1080/13619462.2018.1525299

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Abstract

This article examines activism in defence of the National Health Service (NHS), which emerges in the 1960s to defend local hospitals from closure. From the mid-1980s, a new form of campaigning developed, which sought to protect the Service nationally. Tracing this campaigning illuminates, first, that small groups played a significant role in negotiating political change, and in contributing to cultural change which, in turn, has become politically powerful. Second, this demonstrates that the 1980s were ‘new times’ in welfare politics, as Thatcher’s changes fostered voluntary interest in information-led expertise, and a new vision of the NHS as a significant, much valued, national institution.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: J Political Science > JF Political institutions (General)
R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > History
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Great Britain. National Health Service, Political activists -- Great Britain
Journal or Publication Title: Contemporary British History
Publisher: Routledge
ISSN: 1361-9462
Official Date: 25 September 2018
Dates:
DateEvent
25 September 2018Published
13 September 2018Accepted
30 May 2018Modified
Date of first compliant deposit: 28 September 2018
Volume: 33
Number: 1
Page Range: pp. 52-74
DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2018.1525299
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
104837/Z/14/ZWellcome Trusthttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100010269

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