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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 ...
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.
The original three systems were established in 1948 (NHS Wales/GIG Cymru was founded in 1969) as part of major social reforms following the Second World War. The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery. [3]
As health minister from 1945 to 1951, he spearheaded the establishment of the National Health Service Leaflet concerning the launch of the NHS in England and Wales. A. J. Cronin's controversial novel The Citadel, published in 1937, had fomented extensive debate about the severe inadequacies of healthcare. The author's innovative ideas were not ...
Hill, Michael J. The welfare state in Britain: a political history since 1945 (1993) online; Hills, John, ed. "The State Of Welfare: The Welfare State in Britain since 1974 (1992) Hudson, John, et al. "Exploring public attitudes to welfare over the Longue Durée: Re‐examination of survey evidence from Beveridge, Beatlemania, Blair and beyond."
The National Health Service (NHS) is launched in 1948, offering comprehensive health care for all, free at the point of delivery, but paid for through taxation. Whitley Councils established for nursing. Pay for student nurses was set at £200 with a deduction of £100, and for staff nurses £315, rising by increments to £415 with a deduction ...
1948 – The National Health Service is founded and the Paddington Green Children's Hospital, the Princess Louise Hospital, the Samaritan Hospital for Women, St Luke's Hospital, Bayswater (formerly St Luke's Hospital for the Dying) and the Western Eye Hospital join St Mary's to offer more beds in order to meet the recommendations of the 1944 ...
Your Very Good Health is a 1948 British animated short film and public information film about the foundation of the National Health Service (NHS). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It explains how people would be affected by the National Health Service Act 1946 introduced under Clement Attlee .