1963: Panorama on the Ambulance Service
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Through following those whose lives are involved in various ways, this programme provides a picture of the ambulance service 15 years after the creation of the NHS.
Parts of the NHS were criticised from within the Labour Party soon after its creation. The economic climate made it difficult to increase funding in the 1960s and 1970s.
The term 'ambulance' derives from the French 'hopital ambulant', or 'mobile field hospital'. St John Ambulance was the first and only provider of an ambulance service prior to the NHS.
