Modern world: hospitals, surgery, public health

Question 1

Who set up the NHS in 1948?

Answer 1

A Labour government. The minister for health, Aneurin Bevan, was the architect of the NHS.

Question 2

What was the significance of the NHS being set up?

Answer 2

By the 1960s, there were hospitals all throughout the UK. Healthcare is now more accessible and is “free” at the point of use.

Question 3

What are hospitals like now and why?

Answer 3

Clean, sophisticated & highly regulated; high-tech due to the acceptance of aseptic procedures, better technology and increasingly better training of staff.

Question 4

Give 4 examples of the improved public health services of the modern day.

Answer 4

GPs, dentists, ambulance services and health visitors to the home.

Question 5

How was surgery’s progress boosted during WW1?

Answer 5

There was massive progress in setting broken bones and performing blood transfusions.

Question 6

Give 3 examples of the high-tech surgery we now have.

Answer 6

Keyhole surgery, robotic surgery and microsurgery.

Question 7

Give 3 examples of government historial landmarks in modern health.

Answer 7

1. 1919: government set up the Ministry of Health
2. 1942: the Beveridge Report suggested the government had a duty to provide for the population’s welfare
3. 1948: Labour government set up NHS. By 1960s: NHS hospitals throughout UK