[Comment] The future of the NHS: no longer the envy of the world?

The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is one of the most comprehensive public health-care systems in the world and has provided free, high-quality care to millions of people since its inception. It was established on July 5, 1948, with the National Health Service Act based on the bold assumption within the 1942 Beveridge Report that a post-war UK would have “a national health service for prevention and for cure of disease and disability” that “will ensure that for every citizen there is available whatever medical treatment he requires, in whatever form he requires”.
Source: LANCET - Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Comment Source Type: research