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Page last updated at 13:39 GMT, Friday, 4 July 2008 14:39 UK
Surgery
Does the NHS have a future?
Experts doubt whether the UK can continue to finance an NHS which is free at the point of need for all.


FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS

Susan Banks 'The NHS and I have grown up together'


Surgery Do the French do it better?


Gloria Nasralla 'Everybody was so kind and welcoming'


 Mona Williams and baby 'We used to get coal for our new mums'


Glasgow Infirmary Sixty years of the Scottish NHS


Da Vinci robot Innovation transforming NHS care

KEY STORIES
Quality ranking key to NHS funds
Viewpoints: Darzi review of NHS
A 60-year revolution in surgery
Public tolerant of 'nanny state'
Cash-for-quality in new-look NHS
Infections 'the biggest NHS fear'
NHS drug approval to speed up

BBC NHS at 60 logo
As the NHS turns 60, the BBC is giving the service a health check.
Reports and features will appear on TV, on radio and online.

The NHS - an easy birth? An easy birth?
The struggle to realise the vision of a free health service
Remembering the early days of the NHS. Audio slideshow
Remembering the earliest days of the NHS
image of doctors Then and now
Graphic depiction of how the NHS has changed over 60 years


VIDEO NEWS
Nurse Archive footage of the NHS

Alan Johnson Alan Johnson sets out NHS plans



Sally Magnusson in a doctor's surgery Panorama: Preview
Sally Magnusson asks what future for the NHS?

FROM PANORAMA >>
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The BBC archive special site on the foundation of the NHS in 1948. BBC archives
Learn about the birth of the National Health Service

MORE FEATURES
Matron gives modern NHS a check-up
The changing nature of illness
The birth of a baby and the NHS
NHS 'is a very precious thing'
How doctors worked before NHS
Life in a hospital 'engine room'
Three generations' debt to NHS
'I said the NHS was too hurried'
Devoted to the NHS for 60 years
Patient care 'transformed'
Japan tackles ageing problem
The struggle for control of NHS
Timeline of the history of the NHS

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