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Interactive timeline of the history of the NHS by the Nuffield Trust; NHS history – From Cradle to Grave, detailed study by Geoffrey Rivett; Celebrating 60 years of the NHS in Scotland; Chronology of NHS reform; The "Matchbox on a Muffin": The Design of Hospitals in the Early NHS (pdf) Celebrating 60 years of the NHS
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 [1] The next major reorganisations would be the Health Services Act 1980 and the Health Authorities Act 1995 which repealed the 1973 Act.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 ...
Eventually, she had been diagnosed with a 'deep-seated guilt about getting things free from the National Health Service.' [75] Analysing cartoons about health featured in Punch magazine from 1948, the psychiatrist Bernard Zeitlyn argues that they 'centred on the bonanza of free spectacles, beards and trips abroad' that the NHS would bring. [76]
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 ...
All nurse training schools were to have access to hospitals or groups of hospitals with 300 beds or more. [ 5 ] The Platt Report recommended that student nurses remained employees funded by Regional Health Authorities and paid a grant. [ 6 ]
The white paper, Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS, [10] was followed in December 2010 by an implementation plan in the form of Liberating the NHS: legislative framework and next steps. [11] McKinsey & Company who have been influential in the British Department of Health for many years was heavily involved in the discussions around the ...
Unlike some later plans for NHS reform there was a great deal of effort devoted to marshalling political support for the plan. At the beginning of the printed document were two pages with the signatures of 25 prominent leaders in the health field, including doctors, Trades Unions, patient charities and the Local Government Association
The Nuffield Trust, formerly the Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust, is a charitable trust with the mission of improving health care in the UK through evidence and analysis. The Nuffield Trust is registered with the Charity Commission as charity number 209169, and is a company limited by guarantee registered in England with company number ...