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This week I met with Dr Michael Whitfield to discuss Bristol’s dispensaries. For the two hundred years or so before the creation of the NHS in 1948, the dispensaries were one of the main providers of healthcare in Britain, especially for its poorest people. We discussed how the dispensaries operated, who paid for them and what they can tell us about modern day healthcare.

Bristol History Podcast 5th July, 2021

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