Ellen R. Welch Libri

The Coronavirus pandemic in 2020 has changed life as we know it and thrust the NHS into the spotlight. A nation in lockdown has adorned windows with rainbows and stepped onto doorsteps every Thursday to celebrate the people who are risking their lives by turning up to work. But as the grim reports of deaths from the disease cumulate, along with stories of insufficient protective equipment for staff, there is hope that the crisis will raise awareness and bring change to the way the NHS and its people are treated.At midnight on 5 July 1948, the National Health Service was born with the founding principal to be free at the point of use and based on clinical need rather than on a person's ability to pay. Over seventy years since its formation, these core principals still hold true, but the world has changed. Persistent underfunding has not kept pace with increased demand for healthcare, leading to longer waiting times, staffing shortages and low moral.This book traces the history of our health service, from Victorian healthcare and the early 20th century, through a timeline of change to the current day, comparing the problems and illnesses of 1948 to those we face today. Politics and funding are demystified and the effects of the pandemic are discussed, alongside personal stories from frontline staff and patients who have experienced our changing NHS.

Exploring the aesthetic significance of foreignness, this work traces the evolution of prose fiction from the 1547 translation of The Ethiopian Story to Galland's The Thousand and One Nights. In a literary culture that prioritized realism, authors turned to exotic settings as a source of novelty and allure. They skillfully blurred the lines between reality and imagination, engaging readers with the thrill of discovering distant lands. This examination reveals how early modern fiction served as a platform for contemplating the cultural implications of exoticism long before the term became widely used in France.

Traces the history of the National Health Service, from its founding in July 1948 to the present day.

Includes unique photos from staff telling their stories as well as some photos of NHS murals from the artists.

I tried to contact my own GP last week. I counted 19 redials and 20 minutes on hold before I was able to speak to a receptionistâ only to be told that all the appointments for the day had gone. My experience echoes a familiar tale told up and down the country, but just why is it that you can t see your GP anymore? This book provides some answers to that questionâ UK general practice has reached crisis point. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has placed a strain on an already crumbling primary care service, leaving both patients and NHS staff struggling.Seventy-five years after the NHS was created, Dr Ellen Welch lifts the curtain on general practice. She looks back on the history of the profession exploring how the job has changed- particularly since the pandemic - then ahead to what the future of general practice might look like.Why Can t I See My GPfeaturespersonal accounts from practicing GPs, including Dr Aman Amir, whose surgery was subject to an arson attack; GP leaders Dr David Wrigley, Dr Lizzie Toberty and Dr Paul Evans, alongside commentator Roy Lilley, and bereaved husband Chris Milligan. Those on the frontline try to answer the question: how did we get here? Is it better overseas? And what can be done to make things better for us all in the future?If you ve ever found yourself frustrated by the length of time it took to get a GP appointment, then this book is for you.

The map we draw of seventeenth-century French literary and intellectual culture is usually a small one, centered on Paris and Versailles to reflect the consolidation of intellectual and artistic capital under absolutism. Yet this process of centrali-zation depended on the creation of strong infrastructures connecting France's seat of political and cultural power to the provinces and the rest of the world: an efficient postal system, Europe's largest network of foreign embassies, trade links stretching to Asia and the Americas. How might a focus on these networks - and on the agents, materials, concepts, and practices that constituted them - broaden our mental topo-graphy of seventeenth-century French culture? This question animated a rich discussion during the May 2014 conference of the North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, held at Duke University and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The present volume represents a selec-tion of the contributions to the conference.