History of the NHS
On 5th July 1948, Labour Minister of Health, Aneurin Bevan MP, launched the NHS at Park Hospital in Manchester (Trafford General Hospital).
This picture is him with the NHS’s first patient, 13 year old Sylvia Diggory.
This pages collates MyHSN’s 10 articles on the History of the NHS.
Very short
History of NHS in one sentence
History of NHS (one sentence per decade)
Short (summaries)
History of NHS Timeline
Short history of NHS
Long (in more detail)
Origins and pre-history of NHS
Early history of NHS – 1900-1948
History of NHS – 1948-1960
History of NHS – 1960-1980
History of NHS – 1980-2000
History of NHS – 2000-present day
Did the NHS start in 1948? ..
This information was delivered to every home in the UK. It’s worth reading.
The NHS Act 1946 brought the NHS into being. Its chief architect of the NHS was Aneurin Bevan MP (shown above),
The 1948 had three pillars, the so called ‘tripartite system’. These were Hospitals, General Practice, and Community and Domiciliary Services.
These did and do largely run separately today – which causes huge communication problems, and poor performance .. as the public well know.
If you read the articles above, you can judge when the NHS really started.
