Enter search term here. Setting the scene Health care before the NHS — Establishing the National Health Service — The renaissance of general practice and the hospitals — Rethinking the National Health Service — Clinical advance and financial crisis — New influences and new pathways — Labour's decade — An uncertain path ahead A year perspective — The eighth decade Acknowledgements Appendix.
Geoffrey Rivett is also the author of the following book, available as a free pdf download: The Development of the London Hospital System to the present day. We use this information to improve our site. Let us know if this is OK. You can read more about our cookies before you choose.
Change my preferences I'm OK with analytics cookies. However the necessity for the NHS to remain as a critical mainstay service for the British public was prioritised still by Margaret Thatcher, despite the conflict in ideas in other areas such as welfare and public housing.
Today, the NHS is facing a greater crisis still. The issues of funding and demand continue to rise and the ability to provide free healthcare to all is a continuous topic of debate for many. Nevertheless, seventy years marks an important moment in British history. The NHS created in was brought about through hard work and dedication from those that truly believed in new ideas about services, health, medical ethics and society more generally. The NHS has faced crisis, economic downturns, periods of prosperity, growth and so much more in its seventy years of operation.
The NHS has in some ways exceeded expectations and at the same time there is always more that can be done. The idea of a National Health Service once upon a time would have been unheard of, yet today we cannot imagine life without it.
The creation of the NHS marks a significant chapter in British social history. Jessica Brain is a freelance writer specialising in history. Based in Kent and a lover of all things historical. Thank goodness for the National Health Service! Filth was a fact of life for all classes in the Middle Ages, with plague and infectious diseases flourishing in such conditions…. Margery Kempe must have cut quite a figure on the pilgrimage circuits of Medieval Europe: a married woman dressed in white, weeping incessantly, and holding court with some of the greatest religious figures of her time.
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