Originally established by John Wilder to support psychiatric patients on discharge from hospital at a time when the Mental Health Act meant that psychiatric hospitals were being closed and replaced by 'care in the community'. In 2010 PRA Services changed its name to The Centre for Better Health. Now, 2013, based in Darnley Road, E9.
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Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association
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Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association, founded October 1959, acquired and oc...
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Women’s Transport Service (FANY)
All-women unit, affiliated to the TA, formed as the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry and active in both nursing and intelligence work during WW1 and WW2. Â The original role was to ride horseback (hence "...
1 memorial
W. J. Bintcliffe
Corps Treasurer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District Metropolitan Corps, 1908-1914.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
Betty Westgate
Health campaigner. When diagnosed with breast cancer, she was dismayed at the lack of information and support for sufferers of the disease. This led her to found the charity which was to become Bre...
1 memorial
Miss J. M. Hoare, MBE
Lady District Officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1893-1932. Commander (Sister) in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
William Crawford Gorgas
Born Mobile, Alabama. Worked in the medical department of the US army and specialised in yellow fever. Died in London from a stroke while on his way to West Africa.
1 memorial
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