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Rivett, G. C. From Cradle to Grave, the history of the NHS 1948–1998. First Edition King's Fund 1998, and second edition 1948–2014 in two parts from website www.nhshistory.net. Geoffrey Rivett (2019). "NHS reform timeline". Nuffield Trust; Stewart, John.
Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health, on the first day of the National Health Service, 5 July 1948 at Trafford General Hospital then known as Park Hospital, Davyhulme, near Manchester. The NHS was one of the first universal health care systems established anywhere in the world. [1] A leaflet was sent to every household in June 1948 which explained ...
In 1970, the Local Authority Social Services Act received royal assent, leading to the creation of social services departments in councils as suggested by the Seebohm report. [ 8 ] [ 6 ] [ 9 ] Richard Crossman , the Labour Member of Parliament who saw this act through, was sceptical about the practicality of the report's recommendations.
This was the first time the NHS had been reorganised in the UK since it was established in 1948. [1] The next major reorganisations would be the Health Services Act 1980 and the Health Authorities Act 1995 which repealed the 1973 Act. It created a two-tier system of area health authorities (AHAs) which answered to regional health authorities ...
A new entrance block was completed in 1902 and a large nurses' home which became known as Woodlands was completed in 1908. [2] The workhouse became a home for the chronically sick known as Selly Oak House and the home and the infirmary combined to join the National Health Service as Selly Oak Hospital in 1948.
11 charts that show how American houses have changed since the 1970s. Andy Kiersz (akiersz@businessinsider.com) ... Nearly all homes are heated with either gas or electricity, and the balance ...
Prof Jim Tomlinson said NHS workers were ‘regarded more sympathetically’ than railway staff and could be as important as miners were in the 1970s.
Now here's something hard to believe: The White House, one of the most historically significant buildings in the world -- and the most valuable home in America -- once came close to being a teardown.