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What an interesting article! While the core NHS principles were very relevant in the independent-health-dominated late 1940s - meeting the needs of everyone, free at the point of delivery, based on clinical need not ability to pay - they don't seem to fully describe the impact that the NHS intends to have on patient care and the experience of patients in 2012. This article is a helpful catalyst towards identifying what it is that the NHS is about today - is the NHS vision to increase life expectancy,
or is it something else?