The NHS was launched on 5th July 1948, bringing together a disparate mix of municipally run and charity hospitals – often poorly funded with inadequate services – private voluntary hospitals, and private GP practices, access to whose services largely depended on one’s wealth. The chief architect of the modern NHS was Aneurin Bevan, as MinisterContinueContinue reading “The NHS was founded on 5th July 1948. Let’s make it NHS Day every year.”
