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Robin Day hosts a studio debate with Sir Keith Joseph MP, Secretary of State for Social Services, concerning the governments proposed re-organisation of the NHS. (1973)

Robin Day hosts studio debate with Sir Keith Joseph MP, Secretary of State for Social Services, concerning the governments proposed re-organisation of the National Health Service.This discussion programme opens with film footage of Aneurin Bevan and a short interview with his widow, Baroness Lee. Robin Day is joined by Sir Keith Joseph, Secretary of State for Social Services, who faces some hostile questions from members of the medical profession. One became a doctor in the year that the NHS was introduced, while another was born in that year and is now a medical practitioner. (1973)

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Fri 6 Jul 1973 10:25

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Contributor Dr Shirley Summerskill is the daughter of Baroness Summerskill, who served in Clement Attlee's post-war government. A Party Political Broadcast by Baroness Summerskill on the subject of the proposed National Health Service can be heard as part of this collection.

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