Labouring under delusions

In the 1940s health minister Aneurin Bevan retained private practice and NHS pay beds, which represented everything he opposed, as the price of establishing the NHS.But when Barbara Castle became social services secretary in 1974, she launched an all-out assault on private practice, the consultant contract, NHS pay beds and ...

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