Years of systematic underfunding have led to crippling staff and bed shortages, collapsing infrastructure and massive ...

as well as from the British Medical Association. He eventually won over the detractors and in 1946 the National Health Service Act was passed, paving the way for the NHS to be launched on 5 July 1948.

The NHS has begun using blood plasma donated by Brits for the first time in 27 years, after a ban introduced during the mad ...

For being a doctor. A 15-year-old girl called Kirsty explores how the National Health Service was founded in 1948 and the effect it had on the health of British people. She talks to her ...