Professor harold ellis biography
Professor harold ellis biography
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Surgeon Professor Harold Ellis, who joined the NHS in its first month, reflects on 70 years of the NHS
05 Jul 2018
Professor Harold Ellis
Professor Harold Ellis CBE FRCS, who began working as a surgeon 70 years ago, looks back at how the NHS has evolved since its creation.
Seventy years ago today Aneurin Bevan launched the National Health Service at Park Hospital in Manchester (now Trafford General Hospital) – offering a system of healthcare for all, which would be funded by taxation, and free at the point of use.
For Professor Harold Ellis, a former Vice President of the Royal College of Surgeons, today’s celebrations also mark the start of his long and distinguished career as a general surgeon and professor of clinical anatomy.
Fresh-faced from Oxford University, he had just returned from a holiday in France with his parents when he went to work at the Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford as a house surgeon, in July 1948.
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