But in the 70 years since its creation much has changed. The numbers working for the NHS have boomed. There are now 1.7m people employed by the health service across the UK, making it the fifth ...

Gaps in the workforce and concerns about a shortage of modern scanners had also impacted the NHS's ability to increase ...

Once elected, Labour's Minister for Health, Nye Bevan, was tasked with leading its creation. Bevan's background as a Welsh miner and staunch trade unionist fuelled his passion to make the NHS a ...

The government is planning to reverse reforms of the NHS in England introduced under David Cameron in 2012, a leaked document suggests. The changes would aim to tackle bureaucracy and encourage ...

Read about the evidence that the chief executive of the Professional Standards Authority, Dr Alan Clamp, gave to the ...