The National Health Service is the publicly funded healthcare system of the United Kingdom, launched on July 5, 1948 at Park Hospital in Davyhulme, near Manchester. Created under Health Minister Aneurin Bevan as part of Britain's postwar welfare reforms, it brought thousands of voluntary and municipal hospitals into public ownership on the principle that care should be free at the point of delivery, comprehensive and available according to clinical need rather than ability to pay. Separate but parallel systems were established for Scotland and Northern Ireland the same year. This atlas records what the historical record supports and is not medical advice.
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Founding YearLaunched July 5, 1948 at Park Hospital, Davyhulme, now Trafford General Hospital, under Health Minister Aneurin Bevan. Connections
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The NHS's founding principle of comprehensive, universal care rests on a population health mandate central to epidemiology as a discipline.
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The National Health Service (NHS) is the collective term for the four separate publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom: the National Health Service in England, NHS Scotland, NHS Wales, and Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland, which were created separately, and are often referred to collectively or individually as "the NHS".
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