NHS 60th: HSJ data briefings series

John Appleby and Ruth Thorlby are writing a series of data briefings on the NHS at 60 for the Health Service Journal. They are looking at the issues the NHS faced at its inception as well as the similarities and differences between the NHS then and now.

Data briefings

Maternity services at 60: the birth of a new era
A summary of how the birth of the NHS changed maternity care.

Waiting times are just so...1950s
An outline of the issues surrounding waiting times in the NHS, from the 1950s up to the present day.

1948: creation of a new workforce
An overview of the concerns about staff shortages in the early years of the NHS.

Why NHS budgets have always been a bugbear
A look at how NHS budgets have been problematic since the first budget in 1948.