Published ahead of this week’s anniversary, new book “The NHS” brings together over 100 photos from the service’s early decades. A patient with a chest specialist at a Bristol health center inspect a chest X-ray in July 1948, the month the NHS launched. Popperfoto/Getty ImagesNurses cradle the first babies to be born under the new National Health Service on 5th July 1948. Had they been born a day earlier, they would have cost their families one shilling and sixpence, according to new book "The NHS." The postwar decades saw the NHS recruit heavily from Commonwealth and Caribbean countries to meet a shortfall in nursing staff.

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