The aim has been to reduce costs and make the NHS more efficient. An example is the creation of NHS Direct in 1996. Some of the more recent changes to the organisation of the NHS have included ...

Aneurin Bevan and the creation of the NHS After World War Two, Winston Churchill lost the general election in 1945 to Clement Attlee and the Labour Party. Aneurin Bevan then became Minister of Health.

It found England is now short of 12,000 hospital doctors and more than 50,000 nurses and midwives, calling this the worst workforce crisis in NHS history ... "Without the creation of meaningful ...

The Government had ambitiously promised the new hospital by 1974 but it would not open for a further five years and was £4m over budget. Its first patient was Eva Cook on February 24, 1979, and the 82 ...