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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.
Edwin Chadwick (1800–1890) identified the public health issues in crowded cities and led major reforms in urban sanitation and public health. He pioneered the use of systematic surveys to identify all phases of a complex social problem, and pioneered the use of systematic long-term inspection programmes to make sure the reforms operated as ...
This book is a nostalgic celebration of the NHS, publishing to coincide with the 75th anniversary on 5 July NHS at 75 in photos: Look back at one of Britain’s greatest achievements Skip to main ...
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 [1] The next major reorganisations would be the Health Services Act 1980 and the Health Authorities Act 1995 which repealed the 1973 Act.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 review by respected surgeon Lord Darzi found widespread issues across the health service.
The National Health Service Act 1946 (9 & 10 Geo. 6.c. 81) came into effect on 5 July 1948 and created the National Health Service in England and Wales thus being the first implementation of the Beveridge model.
People of working age had to pay a weekly contribution (by buying a stamp) and in return were entitled to a wide range of benefits, including a pension, health and unemployment benefits, and widows' benefits. [26] The National Health Service began operations in July 1948. [27]