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When the NHS was launched in 1948 it had a budget of £437 million [24] (equivalent to £20.07 billion in 2023). In 1955/56 health spending was 11.2% of the public services budget. [25] NHS Spending [1948/49–2014/15] [26]
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 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 2023, a report revealed that NHS staff had faced over incidents of 20,000 sexual misconduct from patients from 2017 to 2022 across 212 NHS Trusts. [citation needed] In June 2023, the delayed NHS Long Term Workforce Plan was announced, to train doctors and nurses and create new roles within the health service. [58]
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 [1] The next major reorganisations would be the Health Services Act 1980 and the Health Authorities Act 1995 which repealed the 1973 Act.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 ...
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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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.