60 years of the NHS - The Observer 22nd June 2008

The NHS was launched on July 5 1948 by Aneurin Bevan, Labour health minister, at the Park Hospital in Manchester, which is now called Trafford General Hospital. In a leaflet sent to every home, the government promised that the new NHS 'will provide you with all medical, dental and nursing care. Everyone - rich or poor, man, woman or child - can use it or any part of it. There are no charges, except for a few special items. There are no insurance qualifications. But it is not a "charity". You are all paying for it, mainly as taxpayers, and it will relieve your money worries in time of illness.'

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