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Within a month of the vesting day of the National Health Service, in 1948, 97 per cent of the general public were "signed up" for treatment. This was a triumph for the then minister of health, Aneurin Bevan, who built a system of care and disease prevention on a single belief - that he saw "the sale and purchase of medical practice as an evil in itself". We are now seeing the damage that can be caused by a Labour prime minister who believes the opposite.
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What Bevan Would Think of Blair
Within a month of the vesting day of the National Health Service, in 1948, 97 per cent of the general public were "signed up" for treatment. This was a triumph for the then minister of health, Aneurin Bevan, who built a system of care and disease prevention on a single belief - that he s...
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