Heart of the Nation

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HEART

  F THE

NATION

The NHS then . . . and now

Migrants have played a key role in the NHS since its foundation in 1948. Today, around a quarter of all NHS staff, a third of nurses and health visitors, and almost half of doctors are non-British nationals or from a minority ethnic background. Many have found themselves working on the frontlines of the Covid-19 pandemic. A disproportionate number have lost their lives.

 

NHS workers have been painted as heroes during the pandemic. But the day-to-day experience has been far more complicated. For the large number of foreign-born and minority ethnic workers across the healthcare sector, it has been a time of pride – but also of confusion and exhaustion, and concern for their patients, families and friends.

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AFTER THIS LESSON YOU WILL KNOW

•  what the NHS is and why it is important
•  six medical migrants who have had a lasting impact on healthcare and medicine
•  who Ludwig Guttmann was and what he did

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What do you already
know about the NHS?

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Question: What do you already know about the NHS?

Do: Each student writes down at least three words in response to this question. Once they have all finished, take a look at the answers and group them by theme by dragging the answers to different corners of the slide.

Extra information: NHS stands for National Health Service.

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Which countries did a lot of the NHS workers come from?
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Question: Which countries did a lot of the NHS workers come from?

Do: Drag the hotspots to places on the map where you think a lot of the NHS workers came from.

Answers:

• Ireland, Central Europe (refugees from Nazi Germany)
• former British colonies: the Caribbean, Indian subcontinent, Africa

TIMELINE

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The next three slides will highlight six people who were all medical migrants. They have all had a lasting impact on healthcare and medicine in this country.

While seriously ill in Rome, Anglo-Norman monk Rahere had a vision which led to him founding St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London in 1123 – the oldest continually working hospital in England.

1123

Theodore de Mayerne 
was a champion of chemical remedies and is credited as being the first to put forward the idea of publicly funded universal healthcare in England.

1611

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1800

Annie Brewster, also known as ‘Nurse Ophthalmic’, is one of the first black nurses known to work in London; she worked at the London Hospital from 1881 to 1902.

1888

Irish nurses have worked in Britain ever since the development of nursing in Ireland in the early 1800s.

11% of registered Irish nurses were working in England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland by 1939.

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Born in Dublin, Sheila Sherlock graduated from medical school in Edinburgh in 1941. She was the lead figure in the establishment of the field of hepatology.

1941

New Zealander Harold Gillies is known as the 'founder of modern plastic surgery'. He developed new approaches to facial reconstructive surgery during the First World War.

His influential book, Plastic Surgery of the Face, was published in 1920.

1920

Timeline

These medical migrants have had a lasting impact on healthcare and medicine in this country.

Put them in the right order on the timeline.

1123

1611

1800

1888

1920

1941

     Who do you know who works in the NHS, healthcare or medicine? 

        What would you like to tell someone who works in healthcare? 

ZOOM IN

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Explanation: With the method ‘zoom in’, a new part of an image is revealed in the upcoming slides. The aim of this method is to make the pupils’ thinking visible by always asking the questions:  What do you see? What do you notice? Has the new information provided answers?

In this picture Ludwig Gutman is visible with friends and colleagues as an introduction to the Paralympic Games.

What do you see?

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Has the new information given you answers?

What do you see?

Explanation slide 4

What do you see?

Has the new information given you answers?

Explanation slide 4

“If I ever did one good thing in my medical career, it was to introduce sport into the rehabilitation of disabled people.”

Ludwig Guttmann

SIR LUDWIG GUTTMANN

This is Ludwig Guttmann. Click on the image to zoom in.

Ludwig Guttmann made it possible for people with spinal injuries to walk again and to re-engage in life.

The Jewish doctor Ludwig Guttmann fled Nazi Germany just before the start of the Second World War. He escaped to England, where he was one of the first people who organised activities for disabled people.

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SIR LUDWIG GUTTMANN

Escaped Nazism, revolutionised spinal injury treatment and created what are now known as the Paralympic Games.

Why is sport important to you?

Question: Why is sport important to you?

Do: Students write down in a short answer why sport is important for them.

Why would sport be
so important for
disabled people?

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Question: Why is sport so important for disabled people?

Possible answers: Sport provides good blood circulation, strong muscles, better coordination and a balanced body. Not only are there physical benefits, but the mental benefits are enormous. These benefits apply to disabled people as much as to anyone else.

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I used to think … now I think ...

This is the end of the lesson. What did this lesson make you think about? Did something change your mindset? Tell us what you had thought before and what you think now.