75 Years of the NHS : Reform, reorganisation and restructure

Lambert, Michael (2023) 75 Years of the NHS : Reform, reorganisation and restructure. History of Parliament Trust.

Abstract

Fittingly, the NHS celebrated its 75th anniversary in the wake of a major reform. Such ‘once in a lifetime’ reorganisations have been a feature since its creation. In this guest blog, Dr Michael Lambert, an NHS historian and Research Fellow at Lancaster Medical School, discusses how successive politicians have used restructuring to try and overcome recurrent crises in the health service.