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
History of the National Health Service over by Aneurin Bevan in Clement Attlee's Labour Party government after the war ended. Bevan decided that the 1944 white paper's proposal for local authority control of voluntary hospitals was not workable, as he felt that local authorities were too small to manage hospitals. He decided that "the only thing to do was to create an entirely new hospital service, to take over the voluntary hospitals, and to take over the local government hospitals and to organise them as a single hospital service". This structure of the NHS in England and Wales was established by the National Health Service Act