NHS 1980s24

01-01-1982 - Male charge nurse checks stitches on abdomen of patient after an operation. © Paul Carter

01-06-1982 - A catering manager in her office. © Paul Carter

01-06-1982 - Male porters, one with empty wheelchair and one with oxygen cylinder, in hospital corridor. © Paul Carter

01-06-1982 - Portrait of three cleaners with cleaning equipment, in hospital ward. © Paul Carter

01-08-1982 - Heating engineer in boiler house of hospital. © Paul Carter

01-08-1982 - Two female laundry room workers © Paul Carter

01-08-1982 - Portrait of member of kitchen staff washing dishes. © Paul Carter

01-08-1982 - Dinner lady serving food over a kitchen counter to two young girls. © Paul Carter

01-08-1982 - Portrait of a chef, opening a tin of baked beans, in a hospital kitchen. © Paul Carter

01-01-1983 - Auxiliary nurse with a newborn baby © Paul Carter

01-01-1983 - Enrolled Nurse (left) and Nursing Auxiliary, on a ward. © Paul Carter

01-01-1983 - Enrolled Nurse (left) and Nursing Auxiliary, on a ward. © Paul Carter

01-08-1983 - Three Ambulance drivers infront of two Ambulances. © Paul Carter

01-01-1984 - Female operating department assistant (ODA) checking drip in an operating theatre. © Paul Carter

01-01-1984 - Operating department assistant (ODA) checking drip in an operating theatre. © Paul Carter

05-07-1984 - NHS workers occupying South London Hospital for Women against threatened plans for closure, London, 1984 Nurse attending to a supportive patient. © Stefano Cagnoni

10-10-1986 - 1986: a domestic worker at St Charles Hospital, Notting Hill, newly contracted out to cleaning company Mediclean, watches a televised speech by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. © Philip Wolmuth

28-09-1985 - 1985: A ward in the partially demolished St Mary's Hospital, Harrow Road, West London © Philip Wolmuth

28-09-1985 - Demolition of St.Mary's Hospital, Harrow Road, London. © Philip Wolmuth

28-09-1985 - 1985: A ward in the partially demolished St Mary's Hospital, Harrow Road, West London © Philip Wolmuth

28-09-1985 - Demolition of St.Mary's Hospital, Harrow Road, London. © Philip Wolmuth

16-01-1988 - Closed wards and empty beds due to cuts, The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Owestry, Shropshire 1988 © John Harris

16-01-1988 - Closed wards and empty beds due to cuts, The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Owestry, Shropshire 1988 © John Harris

15-01-1988 - Professor Brian O'Connor in a operating threatre closed due to NHS cuts, 1988 Institute of Orthopaedics, Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry, Shropshire © John Harris