What year was the

National Health Service created?

1951

HH

The NHS had been operating for

three years by 1951.

HH

The new Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hugh Gaitskell, proposes a one shilling (5p) prescription charge and new charges for dental treatments (chiefly dentures) and spectacles.

H

Facing the need to increase military spending in 1951, he imposed National Health Service charges on dentures and spectacles, prompting the leading left-winger Aneurin Bevan to resign from the Cabinet.