What year was the

National Health Service created?

1942

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It was still a few years before the NHS was created but despite World War II planning for the service was well under way.

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Sir William Beveridge’s report, Social Insurance and Allied Services, proposes major changes to create the foundations for a welfare system and, in its support, a national health service (the details were left for later).

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William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge KCB

(1879 – 1963) was a British economist who was a noted progressive and social reformer. Beveridge published widely on unemployment and social security