- Tuesday, April 23, 2024
By: Lauren Codling
by REHMAN CHISHTI Conservative MP for Gillingham and Rainham and party vice-chairman for communities THIS week we wish our beloved NHS a happy 70th birthday. The NHS first came into being on July 5, 1948. This was an innovative and pioneering move all those years ago, in a country that was still feeling the effects of World War II, and was not instantly met with widespread support. However, this radical idea – embodying respect, warmth and compassion for others – underpins society’s deepest constructs. Seventy years later, the NHS is viewed as our most-loved British institution – and rightly so. The…
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