I was out walking the other day when I happed to take a photo of the building above. While it is now a private house, the lettering on the side reads “Miners Accident Hospital, 1883”. Two things immediately struck me. One was the thought involving the NHS, and tunnelling out from the financial crisis (it’s be 2 year FFS!).
The other was how while we in the NHS are told that the idea of there being specialist hospitals that will be designed to provide care in the community as if this was a new and innovative idea, here was an example of this from 1883. You can almost imagine a person having a broken leg outside the gates whit the matron walking out and saying “You broken your leg?”
Person: “Yes”
Matron: “You a miner?”
Person: “No”
Matron: “Oh, well bugger off then!”.
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