The NHS: everything you wanted to know
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The Impact of the Second World War on the NHS
An older school of historiography argued that you wouldn't have had a Labour government if it hadn't been for the Second World War. My view is that there were, as I've mentioned, very important debates about what healthcare should look like as far back as the Edwardian period. But certainly they really do begin to escalate in the 1920s and the 1930s in the context of unemployment, depression,. these kinds of economic cycles which had effect on health. A lot of people who set up the NHS cared about reversing that.
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