Care for the many, not the few
Daily Record|July 03, 2023
ON July 5, 1948, for the first time, no matter your age, sex or status, health treatment was free at the point of need
VIVIENNE AITKEN
Care for the many, not the few

But it never created a single new nurse, doctor or bed.

Labour health minister Aneurin "Nye" Bevan merely nationalised existing systems across the UK to make them free for everyone.

Winston Churchill's government oversaw the Beveridge Report in 1942, which advocated the move but war halted the process.

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