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.

'The NHS and I have grown up together'
Susan Banks was born on the day the NHS was formed. She talks about her experiences of health provisions.

Do the French do it better?
Imagine a health service with no waiting lists and a greater access to treatment. For French patients it's a reality. So why not in the UK?

'Everybody was so kind and welcoming'
One immigrant worker's experiences after coming to the UK to work in the NHS.

'We used to get coal for our new mums'
A midwife looks back to her career in the early years of the NHS.

Sixty years of the Scottish NHS
BBC Scotland health correspondent Eleanor Bradford looks back on 60 years of the NHS in Scotland.

Innovation transforming NHS care
Highly specialised equipment is transforming the care the NHS can offer - but it comes at a price.

Quality ranking key to NHS funds
Patients' rating of the quality of their care will directly affect funding of NHS services in England, the government says.

Viewpoints: Darzi review of NHS
Reaction to Lord Darzi's plans for a fundamental review of the way the NHS works in England.

A 60-year revolution in surgery
The Royal College of Surgeons asks its members what they think are the greatest medical innovations.

Public tolerant of 'nanny state'
The public are not opposed to the state interfering in people lives to get them to become healthier, a BBC polls shows.

Cash-for-quality in new-look NHS

Infections 'the biggest NHS fear'
Picking up an infection is the concern about hospital care most often voiced by the public, a BBC poll shows.

NHS drug approval to speed up
The government is to set out plans to speed up the approval of drugs for use in the NHS and end the so-called "postcode lottery".

Matron gives modern NHS a check-up
Hazel Halter - an old-style NHS matron - visits a modern hospital to see how it measures up to her day.

The changing nature of illness
The health problems confronting the NHS are very different now from those in 1948.

The birth of a baby and the NHS
The first person to become an NHS baby celebrates 60 years of the health service.

NHS 'is a very precious thing'
The head of NICE talks about his 10 years in charge of the NHS drugs advisory body.

How doctors worked before NHS
Prof Eldryd Parry, whose career has spanned NHS history, describes his parents woking as GPs in Cardiff before World War II.

Life in a hospital 'engine room'
The One Show's Justin Rowlatt experiences life in the front line at a modern NHS hospital.

Three generations' debt to NHS
The Fernau family have good reason to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the NHS.

'I said the NHS was too hurried'
A GP for over 60 years is an bit of a NHS sceptic.

Devoted to the NHS for 60 years
Professor Harold Ellis started working for the NHS at its inception and is still working today.

Patient care 'transformed'
The type of treatment offered by the NHS has undergone a revolution in the last 60 years.

Japan tackles ageing problem
The Japanese authorities are starting to take tough decisions to deal with the growing burden of an ageing population.

The struggle for control of NHS
Doctors and politicians have engaged in a power struggle over the NHS which shows no sign of ending after six decades.

Timeline of the history of the NHS
A look at the key milestones in the history of the NHS.