National Health Service reorganisation
A chart showing how the yearly planning cycle was to work in the reorganised NHS.
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By the early 1960s, it was apparent that the tripartite administrative division of the National Health Service (NHS) - public health, hospitals and general practice - was causing inefficiency in the service.
Related documents
Labour reforms hindered by economic crisis
- Cabinet Conclusion 3. Public Expenditure. 28 October 1964 (PDF, 1.052 MB)
- Cabinet Conclusion 5. Social Services. 22 February 1968 (PDF, 3.133MB)
- Cabinet Memorandum. Social Services: Prescription Charges - Exemptions. Memorandum by the First Secretary of State. 20 February 1968 (PDF, 0.488MB)
- Cabinet Memorandum. Local Government Reorganisation. Memorandum by the Secretary of State for Wales. 21 January 1966 (PDF, 0.467MB)
- Cabinet Conclusion 3. Social Services. 18 July 1968 (PDF, 1.904MB)
- Cabinet Conclusion 4. Health. 9 July 1968 (PDF, 1.901MB)
Department of Health and Social Security
National Health Service Reorganisation Act of July 1973
Search using Seebohm Committee Regional Health Councils
Further reading
- Levitt, R., The Reorganised National Health Service. (London: Croom Helm, 1976)
- Webster, C., The National Health Service: A Political History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998)
- Lowe's, R., 3rd ed., The Welfare State in Britain (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
- Timmins, N., 2nd ed., The Five Giants: A Biography of the Welfare State (London: HarperCollins, 2001)
Content
- National Health Service reorganisation
- Reform and administrative weakness
- Structural reorganisation and policy
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