Int Hist Nurs J. 1998;3(3):16-9.
The National Health Service, which started on 5th July, 1948, is an agreed Service from the point of view of politics. All three of the major political parties have accepted it and played their part in its planning, and it is therefore wrong to refer to it as "Socialised Medicine" as though it were a feature of one party only. All three parties are committed to it, and it is not expected that a change of Government would make any serious difference to the scheme as a whole, although details might be altered. In order to understand the National Health Service and to realize why it has taken the shape it has it is necessary to know something of how the different health services in this country developed.
国民医疗服务体系于1948年7月5日启动，从政治角度来看，它是一个各方达成共识的体系。三大主要政党都已接受该体系，并在其规划过程中发挥了各自的作用，因此，将其称为“社会化医疗”是错误的，好像它只是某一个政党的特色一样。所有三个政党都致力于此，而且预计政府的更迭不会对整个计划产生任何重大影响，尽管细节可能会有所改变。为了理解国民医疗服务体系并明白它为何形成了现在的样子，有必要了解一下这个国家不同医疗服务的发展历程。
