The NHS: A Revolution in Healthcare
With International Nurses’ Day being on the 12th of May, lets look at one aspect of health care, the National Health Service. ‘Health is wealth’ you must have been hearing this quote since your childhood. Well, it’s not just a quote but a reality. You are nothing without your health. In fact, your good health serves as a key to a happy life.
This is what the NHS knows very well. The National Health Service since its establishment in 1948 in the UK has been taking care of the standards of health across the world.
You’ll see one out of every forty people in England works for some part of the NHS. This is due to the fact that the NHS plays a significant role in reducing health inequalities and promoting essential wellbeing to people regardless of their status. How did the NHS get its existence? Slide down to know the history of the NHS!
The Early 1900s
The idea of the NHS dates back to 1909 when a socialist Beatrice Webb led the royal commission’s minority report on the poor law. He focused on the fact that antiquated poor law (based upon the Victorian era, the times of workhouses) must be replaced by law in order to support the poor living in for poverty.
A Changed Mindset
Though the new liberal government disregarded many of those ideas, influential people were speaking more in favor of healthcare support for the poor. Among those proactive people was a Liverpool physician, Dr. Benjamin Moore.
He was firm on this pioneering vision in support of healthcare. Moreover, he was probably the one to call in a ‘national health service’.
The ideas he presented are there in ‘the dawn of the health age’. It was his ideas that led him in 1912 to come up with the state medical service association. Just another thirty years passed by when his ideas got featured in Beveridge’s plan for the national health service.
The Revolution
Before the NHS was born, people had to pay for the treatments in medical facilities. In a few cases, local authorities would run hospitals for local ratepayers. All thanks to poor law. In 1929, medical treatment was available to everyone.
This was because of the local government act according to which local authorities running services were given an amount of money to do so. London county council then took the responsibility for medical schools and around 140 hospitals in 1930.
With the second world war coming in, the London council served as the largest public service for healthcare.
In 1941 when the ministry of health was processing a healthy policy post-war, Beveridge’s report brought up a recommendation of ‘comprehensive health and rehabilitation services’. This was the tie when all the parties came in support of the idea.
This eventually resulted in the initiation of the guidelines for NHS. In 1945 when Aneurin Bevin took over the seat of health minister, he supported and ran a campaign to bring the NHS into the shape we all are familiar with today.
Florence Nightingale
The name Florence Nightingale always comes up when there is a talk about healthcare. Known as the lady with the lamp, Florence is the founder of modern nursing. She was a British nurse, statistician, and social reformer.
Nightingale training school for nurses and St. Thomas’s hospital both were her establishment. Her efforts toward the betterment of healthcare have greatly reformed the quality of care and so, will always stay alive.
Takeaway
On this International Nurses’ Day, let’s just join hands to appreciate the efforts and contributions that nurses put into the healthcare sector. Your token of appreciation could be anything. Let’s just give them a sweet gift from WALNUT TREE. A little food gift box of your choice is never a bad idea to appreciate others. Happy international nurses’ day!
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