National Health Stories - Doctors Revolt

In a series tracing decisive moments in the life of our National Health Service, medical historian Sally Sheard tells the story of Aneurin Bevan's fight to convince the doctors to sign up to his new health service - the very people he'd need to run it.

Bevan's passionate proposal of his plan in Parliament wasn't quite what the doctors had in mind. Not only did he want to nationalise all hospitals, he also wanted to choose where doctors worked and how much they were paid.

The question was, how did Bevan persuade them to give up their highly valued freedom?

Producer: Beth Eastwood.

Published on Thursday, 21st June 2018.

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