Matthew, Kelvindale

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1948! NHS 1948!

The NHS was born out of a long held ideal or belief that good healthcare should be available to all regardless of wealth.

Aneurin Bevan, prime minister, officially opened the NHS on 5th July 1948.

1946
The Act led to NHS hospital buildings being financed by central government and funded out of general tax national insurance contributions.

1948
NHS hospitals treated 383,000 patients and 1.3 million were seen as out patients. Today the NHS treat 1.3 million inpatients every year and sees 4.4 million as out patients. Spending on the NHS Scotland doubled from 1977 to 2007 to over £10 million a year.

When the NHS started there was no intensive care units or special small wards. All patients were cared for in long wards with as many as 20-25 beds. Some were very sick, patients were screened off in large wards.

The early equipment was very simple. All instruments were of steel and had to be sterilized after each patient by the nursing staff. The big equipment went to a central point for autoclaving. The autoclave was a huge cylinder device which sterilized the equipment by steaming at great pressure.

There are no chrome sterilizers now because all equipment is packaged and disposed of after each patient, this is very costly to the NHS. The old method was more economical to the NHS.

FUTURE

In the future, for financial reasons, the old method of sterilizing and autoclaving may return.

Nowadays, Doctors are more in tune with scientists undertaking life saving transplant operations and more sophisticated drugs.

Children in hospital can see their parents during the week now instead of a Saturday and Sunday for an hour.

Scottish Doctors

Sir James Black discovered beta blockers to treat heart disease.

Sir David Jack invented Salbutamol to relieve asthma.

Ultra sound scanning is used daily now and was discovered by another Scot called Ian Donald, 1950’s.

Professor Ken Murray invented the vaccine to fight hepatitis B.