NHS 60th anniversary

Pages from the first leaflet introducing the NHS to the British public in 1948 Photograph: Public domain

The exterior of Park Hospital, Trafford, Manchester where the NHS was inaugurated in 1948. It is now Trafford general hospital Photograph: Public domain

July 5 1948: The minister for health, Aneurin Bevan, (third from right) arrives with officials on the first day of NHS sevice at Park hospital, Manchester Photograph: courtesy of Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust

Nurses form welcome line for Aneurin Bevan at Park Hospital in Trafford, Manchester on the first day of the NHS when all municipal and voluntary hospitals were transferred to the state Photograph: Public domain

Aneurin Bevan and officials visit the staff and wards of Park hospital where he symbolically received its keys in a ceremony to inaugurate the NHS Photograph: courtesy of Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust

A mannequin forms part of a display to help show visitors around Park hospital Photograph: Public domain

Nurses at Nightingale nurses home in 1948 Photograph: Public domain

15 October 1952: A dentist at work on a young patient in the Woodberry Down health centre, Stoke Newington, London, the first comprehensive clinic to be built under the National Health Service Act Photograph: L.Blandford/Topical Press/Getty

Patients visit a GP in an NHS-run centre in the late 1940s Photograph: courtesy of Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust

October 9 1954: Patients queue at the outpatients department at St Bartholomew's hospital, London Photograph: Thurston Hopkins/Picture Post/Getty

Patients in the children's ward at Addenbrooke's NHS hospital in the 1950s Photograph: Cambridge Evening News

A ward in the Cambridge general hospital in the 1950s Photograph: Cambridge Evening News

NHS nurses pose for a photograph at Addenbrooke's hospital in 1957 Photograph: courtesy of Addenbrooke's NHS Trust Hospitals

The reception hall of Addenbrooke's hospital in 1978 Photograph: courtesy of Addenbrooke's NHS Trust Hospitals

A leaflet introduces the British public to the NHS in 1948 Photograph: Public domain