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Identify the most significant policy changes since 1979 and account for those changes in Health Ever since it was founded the National Health Service has been an important policy area for the Government. Before Thatcher no government was willing to undertake the task of reforming the NHS, due to fear of public disapproval. By 1979 the NHS could no longer manage to deal with all things medically possible. With new technology patients were being treated in more complex ways. In turn, this led to increasing expectations of the Health Service from the public. However, even Thatcher made only one small attempt of tackling this huge problem before 1989. Until this point increasing amounts of money were being ploughed into the NHS, with very few visible benefits. Shortly after Thatcher and the Conservatives came to power in 1979 a scheme called 'Community Health' was introduced. Each profession and organisation was reviewed. It was...

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