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The number of critical cartoons about NHS policy increased from the 1960s, as the NHS faced cuts, and the satire movement emerged in Britain. In December 1960, cartoonist Victor Weisz drew an image for the Evening Standard showing Minister for Health Enoch Powell as a surgeon covered in blood, accusing him of making too many cuts. [ 78 ]
The NHS is the largest employer in Europe, with one in every 25 adults in England working for the NHS. [46] As of February 2023, NHS England employed 1.4 million staff. [ 47 ] Nursing staff accounted for the largest cohort at more than 330,000 employees, followed by clinical support staff at 290,000, scientific and technical staff at 163,000 ...
1964 – Daphne Steele becomes the first Black Matron in the NHS. [80] 1965 – The establishment of the first nurse practitioner (NP) role, developed jointly by a nurse educator and a physician at the University of Colorado. [81] 1965 – The United States Navy Nurse Corps was all-female until 1965. [82]
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.
Texas Declares Independence. Austin and Tanner map of Texas in 1836 Detail of the Republic of Texas from the Lizars map of Mexico and Guatemala, circa 1836. March 2 – The Texas Declaration of Independence is signed by 58 delegates at an assembly at Washington-on-the-Brazos and the Republic of Texas is declared. [1]
Aneurin Bevan, the former Minister of Health who founded the NHS, issued a statement on 1 February 1952 condemning the Act: I have just been studying the new National Health Service Bill. If this is carried into law it means that the free Health Service is dead. The present charges on dentures and spectacles were to end in 1954.
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Hermann Hospital was the first to operate in the neighborhood which later became the Texas Medical Center. In 1943 this hospital was the first in Texas to receive a shipment of the new wonder drug, penicillin. In 1946 it was also the first hospital to perform a cardiac catheterization. It remains the only hospital in the Houston area to have a ...