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As the NHS reaches its 70th birthday, Roy Jenkins looks at the place of faith in the NHS.

Nye Bevan's dream, shaped in Tredegar, remains a national asset whose continued existence in its present form is viewed by many as "an article of faith". More than forty years ago Barbara Castle described the NHS as "the nearest thing to the embodiment of the Good Samaritan that we have"; and only the other day Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson said it was "damn near a national religion in this country"

All Things Considered today looks at how much actual religious faith informs a service which arouses such passions. How well does it care for the specific faith needs both of its patients, and of those who look after them?

Joining Roy to discuss this are four guests with long experience in different areas of the NHS:

Anglican priest the Rev Wynne Roberts, chaplaincy manager at Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor;
Dr Ahmed Darwish, consultant in child and adolescent psychiatry at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend and a former chair of the Muslim Council of Wales;
Dr Sandy Kirkman, former principal lecturer in midwifery at the University of Glamorgan;
Ian Stevenson, mental health nurse who now chairs the All-Wales Spirituality, Health and Wellbeing Group, which advises the Welsh Government.