As health secretary Aneurin Bevan opened Park Hospital in Manchester in 1948, the future of healthcare in the UK changed forever. The new national service meant everybody could get treatment, whether they were a baker or a banker.
It was the first system of its kind in the world and people queued in the streets in the hope of getting treatment. Here are your questions answered about the launch of the world's best-known health system.
What were the British public told?
