This blog is a part of my Digital Newsroom module at the
university. As a member of a team I am responsible for
covering Health and some other issues related to it. I'll
attempt to find interesting information, health news
(including local) and comment on it.
This will include both national and local issues which
could be interesting for local audience.
It seems to me that the first post should be devoted
to something really special. Most people possibly remember
but for those who don't: 60 years ago, on July 5 1948 the
National Health Service was established.
According to its website, it was a man called Aneurin Bevan
who brought the health service into being. Originally a Welsch
miner, he became a Labour politician responsible for
healthcare.
On February 9 1948 he addressed the Parliament emphasizing
that “despite our financial and economic anxieties, we are still
able to do the most civilised thing in the world: put the welfare
of the sick in front of every other consideration”.
Here you can watch a 1948 British Government Public Information
film introducing the NHS.
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