Andrew Seaton

Andrew is a PhD candidate at New York University, working on the political, social, and cultural history of Britain's National Health Service at home and abroad. See: https://wp.nyu.edu/andrewseaton/

From Caution to Celebration: The NHS at 70

Andrew Seaton, 5 July 2018 - National Health Service, Social history

The National Health Service (NHS) is seventy years old today. Founded on 5 July 1948 by Clement Attlee’s Labour government, the NHS is now the most celebrated welfare institution in Britain. It regularly tops polls of what makes people ‘most …

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