Socialist Health Association
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Founded in 1930, in order to campaign for a National Health Service in United Kingdom, as the Socialist Medical Association. Changed its name in 1980 to the Socialist Health Association to reflect increased interest in public health. Associated with the campaigns around the Black Report.
Prominent members include
- doctors: Julian Tudor Hart, Cyril Taylor, David Stark Murry, Somerville Hastings, Charles Brook, Lawson Dodd, R.S.Saxton,Elizabeth Bunbury
- politicians: Michael Foot, Lord Philip Hunt, Somerville Hastings-who was Labour MP for Reading as well as practising as a doctor
- academics: Professor Richard Wilkinson, Sir Richard Doll
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