NHS marks 60th anniversary
Updated 23.17 Wed Jul 02 2008
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The Prince of Wales and Prime Minister Gordon Brown will be among the congregation attending a special service at Westminster Abbey to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the NHS.
The NHS introduced free healthcare to all in 1948. It had a budget of £248 million and employed 16,864 GPs.
Last year the NHS employed 33,364 GPs and its budget topped £105 billion.
The service comes the week Health minister Lord Darzi unveiled his vision for the NHS, pledging to put quality at the heart of patient care and introducing an NHS constitution for the first time.
At the service serving NHS staff and former patients will take part, with the Prince of Wales meeting many of them afterwards.
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