National Health Stories

RADIO 4, 1.45PM

 Marking 70 years since the foundation of the National Health Service, this new 20-part series explores its history in depth and how the NHS as a fundamental part of modern British identity. Listening to this dissection of its origins, its story so far, and is prospects for the future, it’s hard to disagree. This first instalment tells sobering stories of people who died due to lack of basic care before the NHS was established, emphasising the importance of medicine that we now take for granted.