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 which included "a complete health service to be available to every member of the community" and on 9 October 1941, the Minister of Health Ernest Brown announced that the Government proposed to ensure that there was a comprehensive hospital service available to everyone in need of it, and that local authorities would be responsible for providing it. The Medical Planning Commission set up by the professional bodies went one stage further in May 1942 recommending (in an interim report) a National Health Service with General Practitioners working through health centres and hospitals run by regional administrations. When in 1942 Arthur