Changes in Health and Medicine c.1340 to the present day

Flashcards covering key vocabulary and concepts related to the evolution of healthcare from 1340 to the present day.

Denbigh General Dispensary and Asylum for the Recovery of Health

Opened in 1807, it was one of the voluntary hospitals across Wales.

Stanley Sailors’ Hospital, Holyhead

Opened in 1861 to treat sick sailors and later taken over by the NHS in 1948.

Royal Hamadryad Hospital, Cardiff

Opened in 1866, to treat sick sailors and prevent infectious diseases from entering the town.

Florence Nightingale

Improved patient care standards during the Crimean War by cleaning wards and separating patients by illness.

Florence Nightingale

Set up training schools for nurses at St Thomas’s Hospital and King’s College Hospital in London.

Elizabeth ‘Betsi’ Cadwaladr

Helped nurse wounded soldiers in the Crimea and disagreed with Florence Nightingale.

Infirmary (in monasteries)

A type of hospital ward for sick patients, separated from the rest of the monastery to stop infection spreading.

Knights of St John of the Order of Hospitallers

Built a hospital at Ysbyty Ifan to care for pilgrims.

Henry VIII

Ordered the dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530s, leading to the closure of many hospitals.

Thomas Guy

A wealthy printer and bookseller who financed the establishment of Guy's Hospital in 1724.

Medical inspection of school pupils

Introduced in 1907, it was one of the early 20th-century reforms.

National Insurance Act (1911)

Workers and employers made weekly contributions to give workers sickness benefit and free medical care from a doctor.

The Beveridge Report of 1942

Identified ‘disease’ as one of the ‘Five Evil Giants’ and suggested a free national health service.

Aneurin Bevan

Labour MP for Ebbw Vale, appointed Minister of Health in 1945, and advocated for the right to medical treatment according to need.

Welsh Assembly

Took over control of the NHS in Wales in 1999 and made prescriptions free in 2007.