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History of healthcare

This is a page of resources relating to the history of the SHA and of socialism and health generally. General websites are at the bottom, specific items in reverse chronological order at the top. Some of the material carries no date, so I have attempted to deduce a likely date. The archives of the Socialist Health Association and the Socialist Medical Association (we changed our name in May 1981) are held in the Hull History Centre archive of Politics and Pressure Groups, from which some of this material is taken. If you have material which could be included please let me know. Unless otherwise stated the copyright for material on this site belongs to us. You are welcome to reproduce it so long as you give us the appropriate credit.

“medicine is a social science and politics nothing but medicine on a grand scale.”

HEALTH MINISTERS SINCE THE NHS WAS CREATED

  • Aneurin Bevan (3 August 1945 – 17 January 1951)
  • Hilary Marquand (17 January 1951 – 26 October 1951)
  • Harry Crookshank (30 October 1951 – 7 May 1952)
  • Iain Macleod (7 May 1952 – 20 December 1955)
  • Robin Turton (20 December 1955 – 16 January 1957)
  • Dennis Vosper (16 January 1957 – 17 September 1957)
  • Derek Walker-Smith (17 September 1957 – 27 July 1960)
  • Enoch Powell (27 July 1960 – 20 October 1963)
  • Anthony Barber (20 October 1963 – 16 October 1964)
  • Kenneth Robinson (18 October 1964 – 1 November 1968)
  • Richard Crossman (1 November 1968 – 19 June 1970)
  • Sir Keith Joseph (20 June 1970 – 4 March 1974)
  • Barbara Castle (5 March 1974 – 8 April 1976)
  • David Ennals (8 April 1976 – 4 May 1979)
  • Patrick Jenkin (5 May 1979 – 14 September 1981)
  • Norman Fowler (14 September 1981 – 13 June 1987)
  • John Moore (13 June 1987 – 25 July 1988)
  • Kenneth Clarke (25 July 1988 – 2 November 1990)
  • William Waldegrave (2 November 1990 – 10 April 1992)
  • Virginia Bottomley (10 April 1992 – 5 July 1995)
  • Stephen Dorrell (5 July 1995 – 2 May 1997)
  • Frank Dobson (3 May 1997 – 11 October 1999)
  • Alan Milburn (11 October 1999 – 13 June 2003)
  • John Reid (13 June 2003 – 6 May 2005)
  • Patricia Hewitt (6 May 2005 – 27 June 2007)
  • Alan Johnson (28 June 2007 – 5 June 2009)
  • Andrew Burnham (5 June 2009 – 10 May 2010)
  • Andrew Lansley (11 May 2010- present)

General Resources (and those covering more than 100 years)

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