The creation of the NHS and Social Care
We’ve come to take for granted the provision of universal health care that the NHS gives us. We’ve also come to rely on the assistance of the Welfare state when we need help following redundancy or a troubling financial situation and when we retire. However, you must remember that the NHS and the welfare state have only been around for seventy-two years. That’s barely any time at all. Its mission was to provide free medical care, at no cost to everyone regardless of position in society or, crucially, the ability to pay. The Welfare state was created to help use public funds to support families with children, the disabled, those that had retired and those that were sick or unemployed.