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Interesting. Are the NHS curtains always blue? Is there a logic behind the choice of colour? And how has this changed over time?
The issue of privacy is fascinating in relation to the public NHS. Some of the central imagery for the NHS (all those Carry On films for instance) is of patients lying in beds, side-by-side, in hospital wards. But there’s also clearly a history of perhaps rising concern over privacy which cuts across this. The thin curtains, and their thin veil of privacy, is perhaps the compromise. It would be interesting to know more about popular attitudes to this central object of everyday life in the hospital.