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A welfare state means that the state has the ability and right to interfere within social matters and to care for a country's society. It is opposed to notions of liberalism where the state does not have to interfere within public matters.

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Key words and ideas relating to the NHS.

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The NHS: A Difficult Beginning (BBC documentary, 2008)

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The NHS: A Difficult Beginning (BBC documentary, 2008)

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Serving over one and a half million patients and their families every day, the NHS is the biggest service of its kind in the world. It is universally regarded as a national treasure - the 
most remarkable achievement of post war Britain.<br>Yet, surprisingly, the National Health Service very nearly did not happen at all. In the months leading to its launch it was bitterly opposed - by the Tory Party and the national press. But its most vicious and vocal opponents were the very people its existence depended on - surgeons, nurses, dentists 
and Britain's 20,000 doctors. To get the NHS at all required the persistence and determination of one man - Nye Bevan, Labour's minister of health. This film tells the extraordinary story of the six months leading up to its traumatic birth.

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Clipped from a short 1948 film by the British government introducing the original aims of the British National Health Service (NHS), their publicly funded health care system. The NHS began in 1948.

National Health Service 1948

In the past, there were all sorts of  Public Health Services like main drainage or water supply.

Everyone makes use of these services and everyone pays for these services. Other services like service street team : all public services.

New personnal Health service organises on national scale and public responsabilities : rate, taxes and national assurance. Everyone will pay for it. Everyone will benefit from it.

When you are ill : you have the choice of a doctor, it goes for the whole family. The scheme is comprehensive. It’s not for helping you when you’re ill but it helps you to keep well. The youngest generation will benefit from it all.

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Clipped from a short 1948 film by the British government introducing the original aims of the British National Health Service (NHS), their publicly funded health care system. The NHS began in 1948. For details on the creation and history of the NHS, linked to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Health_Service_(England) .

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Original spot promoting the NHS (1948) & GP reaction 10 years later

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Original spot promoting the NHS (1948) & GP reaction 10 years later

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Services offered by the NHS include: hospitals and specialist services; medicines, drugs and appliances; care of the teeth: care of the eyes; maternity services and home health services.

The NHS scheme only started on July the 5th 1948, still, before that date, families had to make sure they picked a doctor for themselves. If the doctor proved unable to answer their request, families had to go to the post office and ask which of the doctors participating in the NHS scheme were the nearest. Then, families had to ask their doctor for an application form for each member of the family, fill it in and hand it back to their doctor. The tone of the first part of this video (until 2’26’’) is one of propaganda almost.

Then, in the last part of the video (saying “10 years later”) we get the personnal impressions of a GP ten years after the NHS scheme was introduced. He seems quite unhappy with it, saying his feeling about the NHS is one of “frustration and desillusionment” and that most GPs “just feel let down” as there were a lot of promises that were made as they entered the programme but have remained unkept for a number of years. Subsequently to this, he calls for restrictions in terms of extra-staff, extra-equipment and the improving of premices that had been steadily increasing from 1948 to 1958 following the implementation of the NHS.

Finally, he adds that many young GPs were actually thinking of leaving the UK to emigrate to other countries which was bound to affect the service in return !

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The British National Health Service (1948)

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NHS Choices homepage, Your Health Your Choices