Wednesday, July 02, 2008

NHS Birthday

Another brilliant photo spread in the Times

On the left, Aneurin Bevan with matron at Park Hospital in Davyhulme, Manchester at the official launch of the NHS. On the right, Gordon Brown with the district nursing team leader at Leatherhead to celebrate the golden anniversary

The pictures are almost identical. At first sight the difference is that the older picture includes a patient – a young girl

Look more closely at yesterdays picture & you see a rather lugubrious, pyjama clad man peering quizzically over nurse’s shoulder