We Are Going to 'Tredegar-Ise' You, Bevan Told Rest of the Uk ; Aneurin Bevanmay Have Been the Architect of the Nhs, but the Inspiration for Enduring State-Funded Healthcare Was the Tredegar Medical Aid Society, As Irena Morgan Explains Irena Morgan

Western Mail › March 05, 2008

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A NEURIN BEVAN was ultimately responsible for the establishing the NHS in 1948. But the Tredegar politician and MP for Ebbw Vale, who became Minister for Health and Housing in 1945, had an ideal model on which to base his new health service, which has been described as "the most far-reaching piece of social legislation in British history".

That model was the local community self-help scheme run by the Tredegar Workmen's Medical Aid Society on which Bevan had served as a committee member in the 1920s.

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We Are Going to 'Tredegar-Ise' You, Bevan Told Rest of the Uk ; Aneurin Bevanmay Have Been the Architect of the Nhs, but the Inspiration for Enduring State-Funded Healthcare Was the Tredegar Medical Aid Society, As Irena Morgan Explains Irena Morgan

When he created the NHS, Bevan said, "All I am doing is extending to the entire population of Britain the benefits we had in Tredegar for a generation ormore.

We are going to 'Tredegar-ise' you."

And as former Labour leader Neil Kinnock...

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