1. Healthy Britain

2. Creation of the NHS 1946-1948 Pre-NHS National Health Insurance
Variety of hospitals
Not everyone covered

3. Creation of the NHS 1946-1948 Pre-NHS National Health Insurance
Variety of hospitals
Not everyone covered
Was there a consensus?
Aneurin (Nye) Bevan

4. Creation of the NHS
National Hospital Service

5. Creation of the NHS
National Hospital Service
Costs

6. Creation of the NHS
National Hospital Service
Costs
Charges

7. Creation of the NHS 1946-1948 National Hospital Service Costs Charges
Impact

8. Continuing problems Power of the doctors Teaching hospitals
Little emphasis on preventative medicine
Remained very popular

9. Late 1970s-1980s
Shift to the political Right

10. Late 1970s-1980s Shift to the political Right
Some services contracted out

11. Late 1970s-1980s Shift to the political Right
Some services contracted out
Costs skyrocketing because of rising expectations, medical advances and an aging population

12. Late 1970s-1980s Shift to the political Right
Some services contracted out
Costs skyrocketing because of rising expectations, medical advances and an aging population
Self-governing hospitals

13. New Labour Private Finance Initiative (PFI)
Both parties displaying striking similar priorities in health policies.
Emphasis on greater public information and patient choice.

14. 2013 - NHS Restructuring Abolition of PCTs and SHAs
Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs)
Private providers

15. Continuing areas of debate
Nursing shortages
Patient choice
Rationing of resources/waiting lists and waiting times
Inequalities – postcode lottery
Prevention
Standards

16. Films
Carry on Nurse (1958)
Britannia Hospital (1982)