tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998901375162827260.post5661645522289717460..comments2024-03-26T13:14:16.760+00:00Comments on teifidancer: NHS - Nye Bevan speaks about the National Health Serviceteifidancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14476044378212084216noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998901375162827260.post-66132228438603602252016-04-05T11:11:34.496+01:002016-04-05T11:11:34.496+01:00Thank you very much for the above information, muc...Thank you very much for the above information, much appreciated.it is true, the Beveridge Report of 1943 set the seeds and blueprints for the creation of the NHS and the creation of the Welfare State. Churchill's own attitude was one of ambivalence and when two years after the Beveridge report and it had become Labour Party policy he became markedly more hostile. It is widely acknowledged though that it was Aneurin Bevan who wholeheartedly embraced it and made sure it was implemented.So Beveridge correctly was the planner, but Bevan was the deliverer. Hopefully as Nye said " it will last as long as there are folk left with the faith to fight for it." Some of the arguments of the founding principles of the NHS have ever been decisively settled, but it stands today having survived largely unscathed over the past 60 years or so, for that I am grateful, and long hope this will be the case in many more years to come. Regards.teifidancerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14476044378212084216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998901375162827260.post-55302531131219004902016-04-04T20:02:12.885+01:002016-04-04T20:02:12.885+01:00Oh dear! Aneurin Bevan was not the architect of th...Oh dear! Aneurin Bevan was not the architect of the NHS. The Beveridge Report, published December 1942, called for 'Comprehensive Health And Rehabilitation Services'. In his 'From the Cradle to the Grave' broadcast of 21 March 1943, Winston Churchill stated "We must establish on broad and solid foundations a national health service.". The Government set to work and on 26 March 1944, Minister of Health, Conservative Henry Willink published his white paper 'A National Health Service', which contains the things the public value re the NHS. Both Beveridge and Willink are available,in full, on the Socialist Health Association website. The Grim Reaperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17369913438808659085noreply@blogger.com