﻿Chapter 2  1958-1967   Email author  National Health Service
History  Geoffrey Rivett   Site Search by PicoSearch  Chapter 2
1958-1967  -  The renaissance of general practice and the
hospitals.   Chapter Contents  Chronology: the second decade
NHS events  Boeing 707 in service   Effective treatment of blood
pressure  Asian Influenza pandemic.  Thiazide diuretics  44-hour
week introduced for nurses  Platt Report on welfare of children
in hospital  Election: Conservative majority 100  ‘You’ve never
had it so good’ (Macmillan)       Morris
Mini                                            M1
opened                              Nursing Studies Unit
(Edinburgh)  Wessex becomes a RHB  Cranbrook Report on maternity
services  Mental Health Act  Hinchcliffe on cost of prescribing
Last call-up for National Service  Noise Abatement Act   Royal
Commission on remuneration of NHS doctors and dentists
Tranquillisers, Librium   RCN admits men for first time  Pay
pause  First man in space    Oral contraception in family