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History of NHS Scotland; History of NHS Wales; History of Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland; 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 ...
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
The National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom, comprising the NHS in England, NHS Scotland and NHS Wales. Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland was created separately and is often locally referred to as "the NHS". [ 2 ]
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 ...
The first anniversary of the NHS was celebrated by the Association with a meeting of 300 attendees at Conway Hall Ethical Society. [1] The association was active in campaigns against NHS charges, smoking and tuberculosis, and for adequate nutrition, the establishment of health centres and salaried general practitioners. [7]
Regional health authorities (RHAs) were National Health Service (NHS) organisations set up in 1974 by the National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973 to replace regional hospital boards and to manage a lower tier of area health authorities (AHAs) in England. [1] AHAs were created for Wales but not RHAs. Separate legislation was passed for ...
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According to s 1(1), It shall be the duty of the Minister of Health ... to promote the establishment ... of a comprehensive health service designed to secure improvement in the physical and mental health of the people of England and Wales and the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness and for that purpose to provide or secure the effective provision of services ...