Muir Gray Don Quixote of the NHS

摘要

The best were Keith Joseph and Barbara Castle, who between them created and then implemented the 1974 reforms. These reforms brought together the isolated islands created in 1948 when the NHS was established. Teaching hospitals, for example, were separate from other hospitals. Keith Joseph, the Conservative health secretary, proposed the changes, and Barbara Castle implemented them when Labour came to power in 1974.The worst? I would not call Mr Lansley the worst, but he did behave the most like an official—something that Enoch Powell said ministers should never do.