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The National Insurance Act of 1946 created the basis of the modern Welfare State. The government also announced plans for a "National Health Service" that would be;-

. . . free to all who want to use it.

Some members of the medical profession were strongly opposed the plans for the new NHS and, between 1946 and its inception in 1948, the British Medical Association (BMA) mounted a vigorous campaign against the proposed legislation.

In one survey of doctors carried out by the BMA in 1948, it claimed that only 4,734 out of the 45,148 doctors polled were in favour of a National Health Service.

The NHS came into operation on July 5th, 1948. Three-quarters of the population signed up with doctors (GPs) under the new scheme on that day. Within two months, 39,500,000 people (ninety-three per cent of the population) had enrolled. About ninety per cent of general practitioners (over 20,000) participated in the NHS from its inception.

Not all were keen on the new National Health Service;-

The State medical service is part of the Socialist plot to convert Great Britain into a National Socialist economy. The doctors' stand is the first effective revolt of the professional classes against Socialist tyranny. There is nothing that Bevan or any other Socialist can do about it in the shape of Hitlerian coercion.

  - The Daily Sketch, February, 1948

Aneurin Bevan (Conservative) announced the provision of private beds in NHS hospitals in the House of Commons on 9th February 9th, 1948;-

We have provided paid bed blocks to specialists, where they are able to charge private fees.

  greeted with shouts of "shame!" by Labour MPs

I agree at once that these are very serious things, and that, unless properly controlled, we can have a two-tier system in which it will be thought that members to the general public will be having worse treatment than those who are able to pay.

For history of the NHS, see "Time-Line" below.

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NHS charges had been legislated for by parliament in 1949 but not implemented until 1952 (announced by Hugh Gaitskell, the Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer in April 1951) when a charge of one shilling (5p) was introduced for prescriptions. A flat charge of one pound was introduced for dental treatment and half the cost of dentures and prescription glasses was payable by the patient.

Aneurin Bevan resigned in April 1949 over the introduction of NHS charges and wrote to Clement Attlee explaining his reasons;-

It is wrong because it is the beginning of the destruction of those social services in which Labour has taken a special pride and which were giving to Britain the moral leadership of the world.

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1948.Jul.05Inauguration of the National Health Service
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1949NHS prescription charges legislated for (but not implemented until 1952)
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1952NHS prescription charges of 1 shilling (5p) introduced (legislated for in 1949), also a �1 flat fee for dental treatment
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1962Medical profession criticised the separation of the NHS into three parts - hospitals, general practice local health authorities - and called for unification in the Porritt Report
1962Enoch Powell\\\'s Hospital Plan published; approved the development of district general hospitals serving population areas of about 125,000 (laying out the pattern for the future)
1967Salmon Report: makes detailed recommendations for developing the senior nursing staff structure and the status of the profession in NHS hospital management
1967Cogwheel Report: first report on the organisation of doctors in NHS hospitals. Proposed speciality groupings that would arrange clinical and administrative medical work more logically
1967Cogwheel Report: first report on the organisation of doctors in NHS hospitals. Proposed speciality groupings that would arrange clinical and administrative medical work more logically
1989Government White Paper, Working for Patients outlines proposals for an internal market in the NHS
(implemented in the NHS and Community Care Act, 1990)
1990NHS and Community Care Act: implements the creation of the internal market in the NHS proposed in the government white paper Working for Patients (1989)
1991First wave of 57 NHS Trusts created
by 1995All health care in the UK provided by NHS trusts
1997.MayNew Labour government pledges itself to abolition of the internal market in the NHS and declares its aims to build on successes, discarding what had failed
2004.Mar.31First 12 NHS hospitals to be given controversial foundation status (April 1st), giving local managers more control budgets and services, named

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