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Five minutes with . . . Harold Ellis
BMJ 2018; 361 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.k2768 (Published 25 June 2018) Cite this as: BMJ 2018;361:k2768
- Abi Rimmer
- The BMJ
“We didn’t notice the start of the health service at all. There were no great celebrations, there were no flags waving, it just happened.
“The hospitals, of course, had already been ‘nationalised’ because when the war broke out there was the emergency medical service and the country was zoned into areas that were then used for the NHS. So it didn’t make any difference to us.
“The one thing that did happen was that we were told that our salary was going up from £50 a year to £100 a …
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