Incurables Movement

Visiting Professor, University College London, and President, Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine

• The search for a first 'home' for the institution. Medical staff at Clapham Rise. A royal patroness extraordinaire : Alexandra. The 'home' in early years, and alterations to the Clapham Rise building. First patients at the BHI. The move to Streatham in 1896. A seaside house at Margate. Later buildings at Streatham, and additional property. A Royal Charter of Incorporation, and strained relations with the RHI. The BHHI in two world wars. The inter-war years. The National Health Service Act (1946). Medical aspects of the Streatham years. Controversy. Financial matters. The home in recent years.

"'This book traces the history of this great foundation from its origin to the present day. The British Home still provides long term, short term and respite care to residents with long term medical condiditons, without any ethnic of religious restrictions just as it did in 1861.' HRH Princess Alexandra, in the Foreword"