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Sixty years of the NHS

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The National Health Service was launched on 5 July 1948. These pages look at the changing face of healthcare in our region.
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Quarry hospitals

Before the NHS some employers provided treatment for workers.

Village cures

Find out what remedies were used before free healthcare came along.

Doctors and nurses

Peggy Goff recalls the people who kept Penmaenmawr healthy.

Community hospital

Tywyn people stress the importance of having their own hospital.

A country practice

TV cameras put the spotlight on a one-man rural GP surgery.

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