As the health service celebrates 70 years of existence here is the lowdown on the minister who set it up ANEURIN Bevan ... During World War Two, Bevan was one of the leaders of the left in the ...

Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health ... anticipate large numbers of expected casualties.’ ‘By the end of World War II, the concept of an integrated, state-funded hospital service had become ...

For the then minister of health and housing, Aneurin Bevan ... the darkest of times, Bevan needed all his determination and sense of purpose during the Second World War. He provided the main ...

As health secretary Aneurin Bevan opened Park Hospital in Manchester ... NHS became law in 1946 – the year after the Second World War ended. During the war, the state had controlled many aspects ...

Aneurin "Nye ... in the Spanish Civil War. He was reinstated in December that year having vowed to toe the party line. By that time, the Second World War had begun and Bevan proved instrumental ...

Aneurin Bevan, anti-Suez speech, Trafalgar Square rally ... The rally was attended by 30,000 or more people, in the biggest national demonstration since before the Second World War. Eyewitnesses ...

My name’s Aneurin Bevan, but my friends call me ... but they couldn’t afford to see a doctor! Well, after World War II finished, in 1945, my party won the election. I was made the Minister ...

The proposal: to expel from the Party his homonym—pink, grizzled Welshman Aneurin Bevan. The crime ... thing on the eve of Britain’s greatest war effort. The crisis was postponed.