NHS

We are starting the year by looking at our much loved National Health Service.

The NHS is a Government-funded medical and health care services that everyone living in the UK can use without being asked to pay the full cost of the service.

The NHS was officially opened on 5 July 1948, at Park Hospital (now Trafford General Hospital) in Manchester. This unveiling marked the day that by law all UK residents were given the right to access health services offered by doctors, nurses, midwives, and dentists without having to pay directly in England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

Click to view The 1948 leaflet which was sent out to people when the NHS started.

More information on the NHS, including a Healh A-Z and Medicine A-Z, can be found on the NHS website: https://www.nhs.uk/