PLUS: Your memories of the NHS
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The Times
Thursday July 5 2018
NHS at 70
 
Welcome to our special bulletin, taking a look at the NHS as it celebrates its 70th year.

Since the NHS was formed in 1948, there have been more than 48 million births and 43 million deaths in the UK. Infant mortality has fallen almost tenfold and life expectancy has increased significantly, with people now living an average of 15 years longer.

The service is under severe pressure, with targets being missed and patients waiting longer than ever before for treatment. To mark the 70th anniversary, we have looked at the state of the NHS in your area, comparing the treatment you receive to the national average across eight key metrics.

We have also asked for your memories of the health service, both good and bad, to show the changing nature of healthcare in the UK over the past 70 years.
Sam Joiner
Sam Joiner
Interactive News Editor
 
How does your NHS experience compare?
The NHS is under severe pressure, with targets being missed and patients waiting longer than ever before for treatment. But what's the situation like in your area? Enter your postcode, choose your trust and see how your local hospital compares across 16 key metrics
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Your memories of the NHS
An audio interactive focusing on readers’ memories of the NHS, from the 82-year-old woman from Sheffield who was one of the health service's first patients to the 28-year-old from London who was taken on runs by a nurse to help her recover from anorexia.
Listen to the memories >
Is our health service falling short?
Chris Smyth
Five-year survival rates by type of cancer. Data for 2009 to 2014.
Source: Concord 3 study
"The NHS is an undistinguished, if not frankly mediocre, healthcare system." This is the verdict not of a claque of rightwing ideologues bent on privatisation but the measured conclusion of four leading think tanks.
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Comment
Alex Massie
The NHS has become the greatest cult of our time
Alex Massie
Melanie Phillips
The elderly deserve better than NHS care
Melanie Phillips
In pictures: 70 years of the NHS
New nurses’ uniforms were launched at the London Nursing Exhibition in 1967.
Our cradle-to-grave health service has been caring for people for a lifetime. This photo series shows the faces behind the front line.
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From our readers
The NHS is not a miracle but that is not its fault. The shibboleth of 'free at the point of delivery' drowns it in time-wasters.
Kiwi Christopher
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