The NHS: everything you wanted to know
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The History of the NHS
There was no such thing as a 'golden age' for the NHS, he says. The Atley governments actually spent more money on imperial commitments and overseas military commitments than they did the welfare state. If we're thinking about funding, then the most generous point of NHS funding is under new labour in the late 1990s and during the 2000s. It isn't necessarily in the deep, deep past that we could find the high watermarks of the NHS - which are surprisingly recent.
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