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Health Before the NHS: A Medical Revolution

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Robert Winston

Nariman Massoumi

Michael Poole

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Health before the NHS: The Road to Recovery

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Episode 2: Health before the NHS: A Medical Revolution

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Health before the NHS: A Medical Revolution

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The transformation of the hospital from Victorian workhouse to modern centre of medicine.

Robert Winston explores the extraordinary transformation of the hospital from Victorian workhouse to modern centre of medicine.

The Robert Winston-narrated mini-series concludes with the story of hospitals. At the beginning of the 20th century these were forbidding places very much to be avoided - a last resort for the destitute rather than places you would go to get better. Using unique archive footage from an era when infectious disease was virtually untreatable and powerful first-hand accounts from patients, doctors and nurses, the programme explores the extraordinary transformation of the hospital from Victorian workhouse to modern centre of medicine.

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