Local Labour Party celebrate NHS 70th Birthday
Date published: 12 July 2018
Local Labour Party celebrate NHS 70th Birthday
Rochdale residents joined with local MP Tony Lloyd and activists to celebrate the 70th Birthday of one of the Labour Party’s most innovative and visionary policies, the creation of the NHS in 1948.
Residents reminisced about their memories of health care both pre and post NHS inception seventy years ago.
Mr Lloyd said “One senior resident told me her story of being born in March 1948 before treatment free at the point of need was introduced, and how her father had to sell his greenhouse to provide medical care for her birth. We don’t want to get back to that sort of health care, do we?”
People of all ages enjoyed bottles of water and snacks as they joined in the party.
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