The National Health Service: A Political HistoryThe foundation of the National Health Service on 5 July 1948 was a momentous development in the history of the United Kingdom. Issues of health care touch the lives of everyone, and the NHS has come to be regarded as the cornerstone of the welfare state and as a model for state-organisedhealth care systems elsewhere. Yet throughout its history, the Service has existed in an atmosphere of crisis. Charles Webster's political history is an entirely new and original examination of the NHS from its inception through to its management under the first term of the current Labourgovernment, providing the necessary framewrork for assessing its future as we enter the new millennium. |
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1997 general election administration Alan Milburn Aneurin Bevan became Bevan Board cent central changes charges CHCs Committee concerning Conservative consultants continuing cost crisis Crossman DHSS district economic effect efficiency election England and Wales established evident exercise existing favoured Frank Dobson fundholding funding further government's Green Paper Griffiths groups Harold Wilson health authorities health departments HMSO hospital service improvement increased independent contractors indicated initiative internal market introduced issue Labour limited local-government London major medical profession ment mental Milburn Ministry of Health modernisation National Health Service NHS Plan Norman Fowler numbers nurses Patients political practice practitioners primary Prime Minister priority Private Finance Initiative problems programme proposals public expenditure public health radical reforms regional reorganization Report represented Royal Commission scheme Scotland Secretary Social Services spending staff target teaching hospitals Thatcher tion Tony Blair White Paper