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  • he didn't create the NHS, it was in the Beverage report and all European countries have some sort of health service without the superbugs and inefficiency inherited by 'Bevan's' NHS.

    Maggie to sit next to Bevan at the Senedd Valleys Mam 2008

  • Thanks to them I don't have a Ration Book any more, and Mr Bevan's work as Health Secretary means I'll soon have the NHS to look after me in my old age .

    Archive 2009-05-01 Dungeekin 2009

  • The Conservative proposal to end security of tenure for council tenants, floated by David Cameron in August and due to be announced in the comprehensive spending review, risks being the final nail in the coffin of Bevan's vision of mixed communities.

    Council housing can bind communities Chris Nicholson 2010

  • Bevan's heartfelt plea, when speaking to the RCN on 21 June 1946, was expressed as follows: "Though these cases might not present the most attractive form of nursing they surely should excite a sense of pity more than any other."

    Letters: More thoughtful care for older people 2011

  • Given all the current constraints on public spending and demand for affordable housing, it is unlikely that we will ever get back to Bevan's vision of genuinely mixed communities.

    Council housing can bind communities Chris Nicholson 2010

  • He ended up by quoting Nye Bevan's warning about a British foreign secretary being sent "naked into the conference chamber".

    EU referendum Commons vote – live coverage 2011

  • In a National Portrait Gallery catalog essay for Mr. Bevan's current show, curator Paul Moorhouse writes, "In Bevan's art, self-portraiture has broken with its historic infatuation with recording personal appearance."

    Tony Bevan and His Self-Portraits Doretta Lau 2011

  • Thanks to them I don't have a Ration Book any more, and Mr Bevan's work as Health Secretary means I'll soon have the NHS to look after me in my old age .

    Who still votes Labour - and why? Dungeekin 2009

  • Whenever standards fell short – whenever, in Aneurin Bevan's phrase, a bedpan was dropped – the echoes would reverberate through Whitehall.

    Medical care: The non-national health service | Editorial 2011

  • Thanks to Swaroop Swaminathan for this clip of Bevan's finest hour.

    Australia v New Zealand - live! | Rob Smyth 2011

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