AS the NHS reaches its 70th anniversary next month, Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust will be marking the milestone with a series of events.
On 5 July 1948, the NHS was launched by the then Health Secretary, Aneurin Bevan, at Park Hospital in Manchester, known today as Trafford General Hospital.
For the first time, hospitals, doctors, nurses, mental health practitioners, psychiatrists, pharmacists, opticians and dentists were brought together under one umbrella to provide services for free at the point of delivery.
Seve decades years on, the NHS in England today treats over 1.4million patients every 24 hours and is one of the largest employers in the world.
Staff and teams across Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust will hold celebratory events on Thursday, July 5, at clinics and health centres for staff and patients.
Julie Seed, deputy director of Nursing at the trust said the NHS has transformed the health and wellbeing of the nation.
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