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Ward life Collection

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Choose from 15 items in our Ward life Collection

Background imageWard life Collection: Incubators JLP01_08_075845

Incubators JLP01_08_075845
Walsgrave Hospital, Clifford Bridge Road, Walsgrave on Sowe, Coventry. Two nurses tend to babies in incubators whilst a third inspects a trolley of milk bottles in the After Care Unit at Walsgrave

Background imageWard life Collection: Ward and nurses station JLP01_10_54099

Ward and nurses station JLP01_10_54099
CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL, FULHAM ROAD, KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA, GREATER LONDON. A view of a corridor and nurses station on a ward at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital

Background imageWard life Collection: Corridor JLP01_10_26697

Corridor JLP01_10_26697
West Dorset County Hospital, Dorchester, West Dorset. A view along a corridor at West Dorset County Hospital showing the decorative suspended ceiling

Background imageWard life Collection: Radiography JLP01_10_34515

Radiography JLP01_10_34515
St Georges Hospital, Blackshaw Road, Tooting, Wandsworth, Greater London. Two radiographers adjusting x-ray equipment at St Georges Hospital, Tooting

Background imageWard life Collection: Radiography controls JLP01_08_069288

Radiography controls JLP01_08_069288
West Cumberland Hospital, Homewood Road, Homewood, Whitehaven, Copeland, Cumbria. An x-ray room in the radiography department at West Cumberland Hospital showing the control booth

Background imageWard life Collection: Student nurses JLP01_08_069285

Student nurses JLP01_08_069285
West Cumberland Hospital, Homewood Road, Homewood, Whitehaven, Copeland, Cumbria. Two student nurses being instructed in how to take blood pressure readings at the nurses school at West Cumberland

Background imageWard life Collection: Orthopaedic ward JLP01_08_069281

Orthopaedic ward JLP01_08_069281
West Cumberland Hospital, Homewood Road, Homewood, Whitehaven, Copeland, Cumbria. Two men in bed on one of the orthopaedic wards at West Cumberland Hospital

Background imageWard life Collection: Hospital reception JLP01_08_069266

Hospital reception JLP01_08_069266
West Cumberland Hospital, Homewood Road, Homewood, Whitehaven, Copeland, Cumbria. Two nurses talking in the main entrance and waiting area at West Cumberland Hospital

Background imageWard life Collection: Hospital laundry JLP01_08_069259

Hospital laundry JLP01_08_069259
West Cumberland Hospital, Homewood Road, Homewood, Whitehaven, Copeland, Cumbria. Workers washing and pressing bed linen in the laundry at West Cumberland Hospital

Background imageWard life Collection: Nurses sitting room JLP01_08_073772

Nurses sitting room JLP01_08_073772
Walsgrave Hospital, Clifford Bridge Road, Walsgrave on Sowe, Coventry. Three nurses smoking and reading the newspaper in the sitting room at the Sisters Home at Walsgrave Hospital, Coventry

Background imageWard life Collection: Hospital ward JLP01_10_34516

Hospital ward JLP01_10_34516
St Georges Hospital, Blackshaw Road, Tooting, Wandsworth, Greater London. A nurse taking a patients pulse and temperature on a ward at St Georges Hospital, Tooting

Background imageWard life Collection: Hydrotherapy pool JLP01_10_23362

Hydrotherapy pool JLP01_10_23362
MAYDAY HOSPITAL, LONDON ROAD, WEST THORNTON, CROYDON, GREATER LONDON. A hydrotherapy pool in the new rehabilitation centre at Mayday Hospital

Background imageWard life Collection: Operating theatre handover JLP01_09_823228

Operating theatre handover JLP01_09_823228
MAYDAY HOSPITAL, LONDON ROAD, WEST THORNTON, CROYDON, GREATER LONDON. G Putley, project manager, and I Simple posed in an operating theatre at Mayday Hospital

Background imageWard life Collection: Operating theatre JLP01_09_823224

Operating theatre JLP01_09_823224
MAYDAY HOSPITAL, LONDON ROAD, WEST THORNTON, CROYDON, GREATER LONDON. A view of an operating theatre in the new surgical block at Mayday Hospital, taken from an anaesthetic room

Background imageWard life Collection: Operating theatre JLP01_10_54906

Operating theatre JLP01_10_54906
CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL, FULHAM ROAD, KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA, GREATER LONDON. The interior of an operating theatre at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital



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