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Fortinbras Armstrong

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3. When Winston Churchill became Prime Minister in 1951

Reply to Turborama (Original post)

Mon Mar 3, 2014, 07:08 AM

Mar 2014

He asked Claude Guillebaud, a Cambridge economist, to head a committee to study the performance and efficiency of the NHS. The Gillebaud committee found that the NHS was highly effective, and needed additional funding to insure that effectiveness would continue. Churchill gave the NHS that additional funding.

Even Margaret Thatcher realized that eliminating the NHS would be political suicide.

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Blessed is he who sees things so clearly... ReRe Mar 2014 #1

k&r& gratitude & admiration for him & HORROR at those who now seek to dilute the NHS! LeftishBrit Mar 2014 #2

When Winston Churchill became Prime Minister in 1951 Fortinbras Armstrong Mar 2014 #3