NHS 75 Archive

NHS 75

When it was founded in 1948, the NHS was the first universal health system to be available to all, free at the point of delivery. Those principals remain as relevant, and valued, today as they did in the years after the Second World War.

And since then, the NHS has innovated and adapted to meet the needs of each successive generation, always putting patients at the heart of everything it does. From the midwives who help bring us into the world, the GPs and pharmacists who are our first port of call when we are sick, the nurses, doctors and other clinicians who care for us in our time of need, the porters and cleaners who keep our hospitals moving, and the hundreds of thousands of dedicated staff and volunteers in between – our people are the driving force in helping us do this.

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History of the NHS

When it was founded in 1948, the NHS was the first universal health system to be available to all, free at the point of delivery. Those principals remain as relevant, and valued, today as they did in the years after the Second World War.

And since then, the NHS has innovated and adapted to meet the needs of each successive generation, always putting patients at the heart of everything it does. From the midwives who help bring us into the world, the GPs and pharmacists who are our first port of call when we are sick, the nurses, doctors and other clinicians who care for us in our time of need, the porters and cleaners who keep our hospitals moving, and the hundreds of thousands of dedicated staff and volunteers in between – our people are the driving force in helping us do this.

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History of Blackpool Teaching Hospitals

1871 - 1948

     

     

    Fylde's first hospital opens 3 August 1871.

     

     

     

    The hospital was originally located on Whitegate Drive and was opened as the Blackpool Infirmary in 1894

     

     

     

    Blackpool Victoria moved to East park drive (current location) and officially opened after the first brick was laid in 1932

     

     

     

     

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Old black and white photo of nurses in 1960

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