The NHS turns 70 this year, and it’s Britain’s greatest medical innovation | Bruce Keogh

Our health service stands alongside other brilliant inventions, such as penicillin, IVF and artificial hips. We must make sure it is fit for the decades to come

The NHS will celebrate its 70th birthday in 2018, after a difficult decade since the global financial crisis culminating in one of the most testing years in our history. The terrorist attacks in London and Manchester, along with the Grenfell Tower tragedy, saw all emergency services, including NHS staff, respond with skill and bravery.

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