The National Health Service is the UK’s greatest post-war achievement and unites the country in our love for it.
Before its creation 75 years ago today children were dying from routine illnesses like chest infections because their parents could not afford to take them to the doctor. The free from point of need NHS changed all that and subsequent vaccination programmes meant killer diseases like smallpox are now confined to history.
Our children – and adults– continue to benefit from vaccinations, with measles, mumps, rubella and whooping cough on the wane and coronavirus now at a more manageable level. From the moment we are born to the hour of our death all our treatment is free.
