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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.
By the end of the 1970s, the NHS had passed 1,000,000 staff [41] and in 2015 was the world's fifth largest work organisation with 1.7m. [42] Nurses are the largest single group of professionally qualified staff in the NHS, with 306,000 employed in English hospitals and community health services as at December 2020.
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 [1] The next major reorganisations would be the Health Services Act 1980 and the Health Authorities Act 1995 which repealed the 1973 Act.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 ...
Similar health services in Northern Ireland were created by the Northern Ireland Parliament through the Health Services Act (Northern Ireland) 1948. The whole Act was replaced by the National Health Service Act 1977, [1] which itself is now superseded by the National Health Service Act 2006 and the Health and Social Care Act 2012.
It triggered years of debate about the relationship between the NHS, local authorities, and health and social care. [2] In September 1968, the separate ministries of health and of social care merged to form the Department of Health and Social Security. [2] In 1970, Richard Crossman rewrote Robinson's 1968 proposals, publishing a second green ...
General Practice under the National Health Service 1948–1997 (1998) online Archived 23 June 2018 at the Wayback Machine; Rintala, Marvin. Creating the National Health Service: Aneurin Bevan and the Medical Lords (2003) online Archived 18 October 2018 at the Wayback Machine. Rivett G. C. From Cradle to Grave: The First 50 (65) Years of the NHS ...
Prof Jim Tomlinson said NHS workers were ‘regarded more sympathetically’ than railway staff and could be as important as miners were in the 1970s.
The NHS was established within the differing nations of the United Kingdom through differing legislation, and as such there has never been a singular British healthcare system, instead there are 4 health services in the United Kingdom; NHS England, the NHS Scotland, HSC Northern Ireland and NHS Wales, which were run by the respective UK government ministries for each home nation before falling ...