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History Extra podcast

The NHS: everything you wanted to know

History Extra podcast

Immediate Media

History

4.34.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

How did the British public respond when the NHS was first founded 75 years ago? How have the roles of doctors and nurses changed in the decades since? And was there ever a ‘golden age’ of the National Health Service? In our latest Everything you wanted to know episode, Andrew Seaton tackles listener questions about the UK’s National Health Service, to mark its 75th anniversary. (Ad) Andrew Seaton is the author of Our NHS: A History of Britain's Best Loved Institution (Yale University Press, 2023). Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0C8CG7RJK/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-histboty The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:03.5

Welcome to the History Extra Podcast, fascinating historical conversations from BBC History

1:10.2

magazine and BBC History Revealed.

1:13.5

This month marked the 75th anniversary of the founding of Britain's National Health Service,

1:26.0

which has since become a pillar of British society. To mark the anniversary, Matt Elton puts

1:32.5

some of your questions on the history of the NHS to historian Andrew Ceton, author of

1:38.6

our NHS, a history of Britain's best-loved institution.

2:09.4

And the NHS in many ways built on some parts of the health care system that existed before.

2:15.8

But that is to say that the health care system that existed say in the 1920s, the 1930s,

2:22.2

was a lot more mixed in where the money came from and how it operated than what followed

2:29.9

after 1948. And it came from a mix of government, voluntary and private sources.

2:38.7

So let's just take general practice and hospital care. So general practice

2:43.9

away that millions of people accessed health care in the 1920s and the 1930s was through the

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