5 July 2018
Happy 70th birthday to the NHS
St Hugh's alumna, Barbara Castle (Philosophy, Politics & Economics, 1932), as Secretary of State for Health and Social Services, campaigned to abolish pay beds in the NHS during the mid-1970s.
It wasn't until 1977, after she was removed from her Cabinet post, that her objectives were achieved. It was the National Health Service Act 1977 that set out provisions which aimed to secure the separation of private and NHS facilities and to secure the progressive withdrawal of accommodation and s...
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