History of the National Health Service He established the State Medical Service Association which held its first meeting in 1912 and continued to exist until it was replaced by the Socialist Medical Association in 1930. Before the National Health Service was created in 1948, patients were generally required to pay for their health care. Free treatment was sometimes available from Voluntary Hospitals. Some local authorities operated hospitals for local ratepayers (under a system originating with the Poor Law). The London County Council (LCC) on 1 April 1930 took over from the abolished Metropolitan Asylums Board responsibility for 140 hospitals, medical schools and other medical institutions. The
Toll roads in Great Britain Forth Road Bridge were removed in 2008 following a divisive 3-year political debate during which it was proposed that variable congestion pricing tolls would be introduced. A new toll road is being planned in South Wales. The M4 is planned to have a relief road built and managed in the same way as the M6 Toll. College Road, Dulwich Toll roads in Great Britain Toll roads in Great Britain, used to raise fees for the management of roads in the United Kingdom, were common in the era of the turnpike trusts. Currently there is a single major road, the M6