factors that helped to form the NHS

• Emergancy medical service (EMS) was set up to cope with the large numbers of civilian casulties from bombing raids

              - offered free treatment to air raid casulties

              - not as many civilian casulties as predicted so other patients were able to be treated for free

              -government took over all inner city hospitals

              - emergancy ambulance service and blood transfusion service set up

wrote the beveridge report

• said that cities should be free from the 5 giants, ignorance, idleness, want, disease and squalor and that the government should look after all members of society
• the report was a best seller and helped to encorage the formation of the NHS

it recommended

• setting up the NHS which would be free for all and doctors are paid by the government
• National Insurance- everyone pays in from their wages  and everyone benifits (working or not) it would pay for sick pay, benifits and pensions

opposition-doctors and the conservative party( it was encoraging more votes for the labour party)

• Introduced the NHS in 1948
• labour minister of health
• helped to overcome opposition from GP's and consultants by offering them a fixed payment for every patient they treated and allowed them to treat their private patients too.
• persuaded more doctors join the NHS