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Hospital Nationalisation

Great Britain · Government / Labour Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

3Records
1946–1948Date range
1Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1946

Aneurin Bevan19 March 1946

London · Government / Labour Party Government

Proposes transferring hospitals to national ownership.

Aneurin Bevan1946

Government / Labour Party Government

Bevan publishes the NHS Bill

1948

Aneurin Bevan5 July 1948

Government / Labour Party Government

free medical treatment for the entire population from the cradle to the grave. Bevan opens the NHS, 90% of doctors sign up

Names involved

Aneurin Bevan

Provenance

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