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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.
The third main film used to advertise the launch of the NHS was a much briefer, information short, centred on the use of voice-over and a combination of still and moving images to encourage members of the public to register with an NHS GP before the National Health Service Act came into force on 5 July 1948.
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—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. [3]
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.
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 The whole Act was replaced by the National Health Service Act 1977, [ 1 ] which itself is now superseded by the National Health Service Act 2006 and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 .
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 ...
In 1924 a film recorded a day at the hospital for the East Anglian Film Archive. [4] An outpatients department was completed in 1904 and a children's wing was added in 1936. [5] It joined the National Health Service in 1948. [6] In 1984 Florence Fendick, the last private owner of Wisbech Castle, died at the hospital. [7]
Regional hospital area Administrative counties County boroughs; Newcastle: Cumberland, County Durham, Northumberland, part of Westmorland (the Borough of Appleby and the North Westmorland Rural District), part of North Riding of York (the boroughs of Redcar, Richmond and Thornaby-on-Tees; the urban districts of Eston, Guisborough, Loftus, Northallerton, Saltburn and Marske-by-the-Sea, and ...