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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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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2018.1525299
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 | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | J Political Science > JF Political institutions (General) R Medicine > R Medicine (General) |
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| 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 | ||||||||
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| 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 | ||||||||
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