The post-war Labour government urged everyone through short cinema films and posters to sign up for a doctor by 5th July 1948 with Trafford General Hospital near Manchester being the first in the world to offer free healthcare to all.
Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham recalled on Thursday that the health secretary who founded it, Anuerin Bevan, considered the NHS a worthy cause, saying: “Nye Bevan said, about his NHS, it’s a real piece of Christianity”.
Burnham added: “I think what he meant by that was, it recognises that people are more important than profits, that care is more important than competition, that there is a better way of doing things as a society.”
During the service at Westminster Abbey, Simon Stevens, the chief executive of NHS England told the congregation the nation should give thanks to the “extraordinary” staff of the NHS, many of whom have shown “bravery at times of exceptional challenge.”
#NHS chief executive Simon Stevens has today sent a message of “heartfelt thanks” to staff on the health service’s 70th anniversary, saying that the NHS’s enduring success is down to their “brilliance”. #NHS70 pic.twitter.com/37CnqFtsAu
— NHS England (@NHSEngland) July 4, 2018
With the advances in technology, the growth in services but also the strain on those services, the NHS today is quite a different world to that of post-war consensus Britain.
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