COHSE David Williams With Nye Bevan

A young recently appointed COHSE officer.

David Williams, Denbigh (North Wales) Nurse and future COHSE General Secretary. 

Here (centre) with the great Nye Bevan at COHSE conference 1953 and still campaigning for the NHS in 2016

NHS Cuts 1949

The new NHS faced almost immediate series of cuts as the new Labour Government attempted to address the huge war debts Britain had incurred, as well as an economy based around war production, a huge need for housing and NHS services for a working class deprived of it. It also faced American insistence on spending even more on a military build up to fend off the so called "Soviet threat"

DW Cartoon 26 August 1949

NHS Rally 3 November 2007

NHS Rally, London, 3 November 2007













March from Embankment to Trafalgar Square

Carles, Duncan from SW Surrey and John Gray from Tower Hamlets helping out with St George's Hospital Banner