Members of the British National Hospital Service Reserve attending to someone who has been injured; advertising recuitment to the National Hospital Service Reserve. Colour lithograph, 1951 (?).

  • Great Britain. National Hospital Service Reserve.
Date:
[1951?]
Reference:
668952i
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"The purpose of the N.H.S.R. [National Hospital Service Reserve] is to recruit, train and organise in peacetime a Reserve of men and women qualified in first aid and home nursing, who would in time of war not only provide the additional staff required for the greatly expanded hospital service, but would also man some 2,000 Mobile First Aid Units and some 800 static first-aid posts at hospitals. Its peacetime target is 100,000 and by the end of last year nearly 35,000 members had been recruited."--British journal of nursing, March 1954, p. 30

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[London?] : Issued by H.M. Government, [1951?] ([Place of manufacture not identified] : S.P. & Co. Ltd.)

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1 print : lithograph, printed in black and green ; sheet 76.4 x 50.8 cm

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You can't be certain - you can be ready. Train in your spare time in the National Hospital Service reserve. Ask for details at the local H.Q. of St. John Ambulance Brigade or British Red Cross Society. Bears reference number: "Dd P 9918 Wt 23856" Bears printer's reference number: "1.9.5.1. S.P. & Co. Ltd." Brears device: CD and a crown, logo of the Great Britain Civil Defence department

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Wellcome Collection 668952i

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