‘I was the first baby to be born under the NHS – and it’s saved my life twice’ - The Times 30th June 2008

Aneira Thomas has relied on the NHS all of her life, through births and bereavements, accidents and emergencies, good times and bad. When she was born at one minute past midnight on July 5, 1948, nurses and midwives at Amman Valley Hospital, Carmarthenshire asked if they could name her after the founder of the NHS, Aneurin Bevan.

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