On doctor’s orders: Barrie Mahoney celebrates a family role in the creation of the NHS

27 Jul 2023 | by Barrie Mahoney

‘The fact that it ever came into being was an incredible achievement.’

The biggest challenge was to establish something as complex and expensive as the NHS at a time when finances, and available staff, had become severely depleted

This month marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of the foundation of the National Health Service, set up by the Labour government in 1948. This has brought back many poignant memories for me, since both my parents were involved in the establishment of a hospital in rural Lincolnshire.

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