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NHS at Seventy – Have you got a tale to tell?

Bob Jope by Bob Jope
July 5, 2018
in Community News, Community Projects, Health
NHS at Seventy – Have you got a tale to tell?

 

 

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Have you got a tale to tell?

 When health secretary Aneurin Bevan launched the NHS in July 1945 it was the climax of a hugely ambitious plan to bring good healthcare to all. For the first time, hospitals, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, opticians and dentists were brought together under one umbrella organisation to provide services that are free for all at the point of delivery.

The central principles were clear: the health service would be available to all and financed entirely from taxation, which means that people pay into it according to their means.

Torbay Stories

Here at Healthwatch Torbay we thought it would be fascinating to hear the stories of local people and their earliest experiences of the NHS. Lots of you out there in, say, your 60’s and upwards, must have amazing stories to tell – dramatic, moving, funny – about those earlier days, from stereotypically fearsome hospital matrons to gas at the dentist’s (something I remember with horror!), from cosy local doctors’ practices to wonderful new means of treatment, saving lives that not too long before might have been lost.

Maybe some of you – perhaps from your own parents’ stories – can tell us something about just how different things were after July ’45? I heard a lady on Radio Devon just this morning, for example, telling us that her gran had two kids, ‘Buy one – Get One Free’. One was born not long before the NHS was launched, the other not too long after!

Getting in Touch

 We’d love to hear from you – and would love, too, to publish some of your stories. So why not get in touch with us here in Paignton?

You can call us free on 08000 520 029, or email Bob.Jope@healthwatchtorbay.org.uk. You could even simply pop into our offices in Paignton Library, open every day, Mon-Thurs 10am-3pm, Fri 9.30am-12pm.

 

Bob Jope   Healthwatch Torbay


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