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(Minister of Health)

Start1919
End1968
Websitehttp://www.dh.gov.uk/en/index.htm
SuccessorsSecretary of State for Health and Social Services
UK minister over the Ministry of Health. Its successor is the Secretary of State for Health.

The Minister for Health was the title of a UK ministerial position from 1919 until 1968, over the Ministry of Health. Its successor was the Secretary of State for Health and Social Services (1968–1988), and eventually the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.[1]

History

The Ministry of Health Act 1919 abolished the Local Government Board and transferred its powers and duties to a new department called the Ministry of Health, which consolidated under a single authority the medical and public health functions of central government. This took on the medical duties of the Board of Education, the duties of the Privy Council under the Midwives Acts, the powers of the Home Secretary in relation to the Children Act 1908, and the duties of the Insurance Commissioners and the Welsh Insurance Commissioners. In the early part of the 20th century, medical assistance had been provided through these National Health Insurance Commissions. Most of the Local Government Board staff transferred to the new ministry.

The co-ordination of local medical services was expanded in connection with emergency and wartime services, from 1935 to 1945, and these developments culminated in the establishment of the NHS in 1948.

In 1968, the Ministry of Health was dissolved and its functions transferred (along with those of the similarly dissolved Ministry of Social Security) to the newly created Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS). Twenty years later, in 1988, these functions were split back into two government departments, forming the Department of Social Security (DSS) and the Department of Health, formally created in through The Transfer of Functions (Health and Social Security) Order 1988.[citation needed]



 

Office Holders on Wikispooks

NameFromTo
Jacqui Smith11 June 200113 June 2003
Anthony Barber20 October 196316 October 1964
Enoch Powell27 July 196018 October 1963
Iain Macleod7 May 195220 December 1955
Harry Crookshank30 October 19517 May 1952
Aneurin Bevan3 August 194517 January 1951
Neville Chamberlain25 August 19315 November 1931
Neville Chamberlain6 November 19244 June 1929
Neville Chamberlain7 March 192327 August 1923
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