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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.
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 ...
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 [1] The next major reorganisations would be the Health Services Act 1980 and the Health Authorities Act 1995 which repealed the 1973 Act.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 ...
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.
A new entrance block was completed in 1902 and a large nurses' home which became known as Woodlands was completed in 1908. [2] The workhouse became a home for the chronically sick known as Selly Oak House and the home and the infirmary combined to join the National Health Service as Selly Oak Hospital in 1948.
A review by respected surgeon Lord Darzi found widespread issues across the health service.