National Health Service (Great Britain)

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Special edition: 70 years of the NHS

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Board of Management minutes 1950-1974; Finance Committee minutes 1950-1974; General Purposes Committee minutes 1950-1972; miscellaneous committee minutes 1950-1973; patient statistics 1971-1974; financial records 1948-1950; Scottish Home and Health Department Circulars 1948-1974

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Board of Management and committees minutes 1948-1970; Chalmers Hospital files 1948-1970; Royal Hospital for Sick Children files 1947-1962; finance files 1947-1968; miscellaneous, 1947-1963

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Featuring a project to provide new needles to intravenous drug users in Leith to prevent new cases of HIV and some opposition to it and some criticism of the focus on the new AIDS (control) bill first proposed by Edinburgh MP Gavin Strang that has just gained royal assent and been passed into law.

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Article, including a quote by Gavin Strang, on the importance of the soon to be passed AIDS (control) bill in and of the particular relevance within Edinburgh, as a city with high levels of HIV and AIDS.

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Board of Management and committee minutes 1948-1974; planning records 1950; Western General Hospital building extensions, plant etc 1953-1969; Eastern General Hospital building, plant etc 1960-1966; Northern General Hospital building, plant etc 1960-1967; Leith Hospital building, plant etc 1959-1966; miscellaneous 1960-1968

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Board of Management and committee minutes 1948 - 1974; endowments, trusts, and Comforts Funds minutes 1954 - 1974; correspondence files 1963; seal; financial papers 1949 - 1972; Royal Victoria Centenary material c. 1987; pamphlets etc relating to Tuberculosis 1906 - 1982.

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Board of Management minutes 1948-1976; Finance Committee minutes 1948-1974; Finance Committee (endowments) minutes 1953-1974; Board of Management (endowments) minutes 1953-1974; Association of Secretaries and Treasurers of Scottish Hospital Boards of Management 1966-1974

Scope and Contents The cover shows a sixteen previous front covers of Gay Scotland and reads: “We’re Back!”.This issue includes articles on: compensation for those discharged from the military due to their sexuality; an open day for the gay friendly rugby team the “Caledonian Thebans Rugby Football Club”; The Highland LGBT Committee’s lobbying of the Scottish Parliament’s Equal Opportunities Committee; John Saxbee (the Bishop of Lincoln) giving formal approval for commitment services for same-sex...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

A collection of newspaper and magazine cuttings covering issues relating to the LGBTQ+ community.

Articles cover local, national and international news, however Scottish publications have the strongest representation with Edinburgh and Glasgow based publications being a specific strength within this sub-series.