Synopsis
Lucy speaks to Historian Tanya Macintosh about how children were treated before the NHS.
- Programme: Matron, Medicine and Me
- Series: 1
- Episode: Lucy Alexander
- Channel: BBC One
- Broadcast year: 2017
- Nursing & Midwifery | Introduction to Healthcare | The development of healthcare in the Britain since the beginning of the 20th century
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