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Compare post-1979 conservative policy on the NHS in the periods before and after 1987 and explain th The NHS came into existence on the 5 July 1948, the result of agreement reached by the wartime coalition and widespread support for the recommendations of the Beveridge Report 1942. For the next 30 years, despite some minor reforms such as the Resource Allocation Working Party, the NHS continued to operate in much the same way as at its conception. The future for the service in 1979, even with the election of a Conservative government committed to 'rolling back the frontiers of the state', appeared to be merely a continuation of the past. The 1979 Conservative manifesto stated "we do not intend to reduce resources going to the NHS" and indeed Mrs Thatcher's team came to office with no radical proposals to reform the health service. However, throughout the following decade, the government introduced...

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