The National Health Service (NHS) was established in 1948 to provide universal healthcare for all UK citizens, funded through general taxation rather than private insurance. It was created based on recommendations from the 1942 Beveridge Report and the 1944 White Paper that proposed a comprehensive health service. The NHS has since expanded and evolved, including taking responsibility for community care in 1974, undergoing major reorganization in the 1980s and 1990s, increasing public involvement in decisions, and facing ongoing challenges around funding and an aging population.

1. What is the National Health
Service?

2. Interim Report on
the Future Provision
of Medical and
Allied Services 1920
Lord Dawson of
Penn 1920

3. Ground Floor.
Examination rooms and consulting
room for Clinical and Communal
Patients.
Child Welfare.
Minor operations and dentistry.
Laboratory. X-ray and dark room.
First Floor.
A hospital for 16 beds for both sexes.
A small minor operation or Labour
room.
Second Floor.
Residential accommodation for
Matrons and Nurses.
Kitchen and mess accommodation for
Nurses and Staff.

5. The
White
Paper
1944

7. 1948

8. 1948

9. 1948 Scotland

10. 1974

11. 1985

14. 1990

17. 2011

19. 2012

21. 2013 public involvement