Aimee, Kelvindale

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The NHS Years

The NHS has changed since 1948. Now people can just walk into hospitals without having to pay or travel really far. A lot of diseases have decreased since 1948 because the NHS supplies of medicine and equipment. By 1975 the NHS was still treating people who served our country in the war which ended 30 years earlier. People couldn’t afford to pay doctors so that meant they had to travel quite far away to get to the nearest hospital. If they couldn’t afford it they just couldn’t go. In 1948 NHS hospitals treated 383,000 patients and 1.2 million were seen as out patients. Today the NHS treats almost 1.3 million in patients or 4.4 million outpatients at accident and emergency units. I think the NHS is achieving much more for patients visiting hospitals. The NHS Scotland has continued to diagnose, treat and care for the population. Quality and patients safety has been priority in recent years as services have been measured against agreed standards!

I hope for the future that the NHS will be even better than it is, Who knows it could maybe even be run by robots.