Cottage hospitals: Cranleigh's loyal army keeps its history alive.
It never called itself a cottage hospital, but it started the cottage hospital movement which gave Britain a network of small hospitals unique in the world. Nick Davidson visits Cranleigh Village Hospital for the first article in a series on the small hospitals now once more in favour, as the reaction sets in against the cult of bigness.
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