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Life in Her Hands: When the Government Made Hospital Dramas
In 1951, the government released the groundbreaking hospital drama Life in Her Hands — a part of a national recruitment campaign to address the chronic shortage of qualified nurses in post-war Britain, and one of the most explicit examples of positive NHS propaganda.