Health Service Journal Health Service Journal Health Service Journal (HSJ) is a news service which covers the British National Health Service, healthcare management and health policy. The "Poor Law Officers' Journal" was established in 1892. In 1930 it changed its name after the passing of the Local Government Act 1929 to the "Public Assistance Journal and Health and Hospital Review", then in 1948 it became the "Hospital and Social Service Journal". In 1963 it became the "Hospital and Social Service Review", in 1973 the "Health and Social Service Journal" and the "Health Service Journal" in 1986. "HSJ" was commercially published from 1997. It
National Health Service point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, apart from dental treatment and optical care. (The English NHS also requires patients to pay prescription charges with a range of exemptions from these charges.) Dr Somerville Hastings, President of the Socialist Medical Association, successfully proposed a resolution at the 1934 Labour Party Conference that the party should be committed to the establishment of a State Health Service. Conservative MP and Health Minister, Henry Willink, first proposed the National Health Service in 1944 with the publication of a White Paper "A National Health Service" which was widely distributed in