The birth of a national treasure
The architecture of care
A global village under one roof
The cultural icon of Britain
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Master of How the National Health Service became a landmark of hope
diego Daphne Steele
Daphne took charge of the Yorkshire ward / (Oh-oh, yeah!) / The first Black matron in the NHS / (That's right!)
diego The HMT Empire Windrush docked in Essex on June 22, 1948, bringing Caribbean women to fill 54,000 NHS
diego Recruiters traveled across Ireland to hire teenage girls directly from local hotels.
diego Match pioneering doctors to their stories to discover how South Asian lifesavers shaped the NHS.
Global workforce: Today, the NHS is the fifth largest employer in the world, staffing over 1.8 million people from more than 200 different nationalities.
On what date did the historic HMT Empire Windrush arrive in the UK, just weeks before the NHS launched?
Where did NHS recruitment officers famously set up interview stations across Ireland in the 1950s?
By 1960, what percentage of junior doctors in the NHS came from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka?
In the underprivileged Rhondda Valley of Wales in 2003, what percentage of GPs were of South Asian origin?