Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Trafford’s Park Hospital

  • Trafford General Hospital: A conjuring of spatial significance

    Sang Ik SongLimerick, Ireland On July 5, 1948, the then health secretary Aneurin Bevan officially launched the British National Health Service (NHS) at Trafford’s Park Hospital.1 The picture of Nye Bevan, suited and clean cut by the bedside of Sylvia Diggory, the first NHS patient, stands iconic in the heralding of a new age of…