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This is a widely used history of the first 50 years of the NHS.  From Cradle to Grave: fifty years of the NHS, ISBN 1 85717 148 9  is available from the publishers, the King's Fund (020-7307-2591) or booksellers.  The book does not deal with the reasons for the creation of the NHS, but what happened next, and why - my earlier book covers this better.

This frequently updated site is used as a teaching resource by degree programmes in health sciences and is the next chapter of the book, as yet unpublished in hard copy.  It deals with what has happened, rather than what people hope or think will happen.

• NHS Improvement plan

• MRSA infections

• Practice led commissioning

• Twenty foundation trusts in first and second waves

• Public Health White Paper

• Review of Arms Length Bodies

• material on the origin and inheritance of the NHS in 1948
• a brief summary of the fifty years, 1948-1998.
• up-to-date information of events since 1998
• You are encouraged to buy or borrow the book from your library - but virtually the whole text is on line

• The Development of the London Hospital System 1823-1982
• Now out of print,  this book deals with the development of hospitals in London in the 125 years before the NHS began, and in the period thereafter. It is now a sub-web of www.nhshistory.net