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How we came to have a health service.

Others have written extensively on the reasons for a health service.  These included

• The emergence of a view that health care was a right, not something bestowed erratically by charity
• Bipartisan agreement that the existing services were in a mess and had to be sorted out
• Financial difficulties for the voluntary hospitals
• The second world war that ensured the creation of an emergency medical service as part of the war effort
• Sociology

 

At the heart of the Trust is the concept of partnership - between the community, the schools, businesses, the government and charitable trusts. The Trusts have set out to establish a pool of financial resources drawn from local and central government grants, sponsorship agreements with business, charitable appeals and covenants by individuals.

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