NHS 75th Anniversary Healthy Ride

Note there will be an afternoon repeat of this ride,

Also please register on Eventbrite so we can limit numbers, link https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nhs-75th-anniversary-cycle-ride-tickets-671312191837

This ride is about how the NHS got started. First stop the Lloyd George statue in Parliament Square. His Liberal government introduced in 1911 National Insurance for workers. This included free health care. Next the Blue Placque commemorating Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health in the post-war Labour Government that started the NHS in 1948. Finally 2 stops about how the idea of a national health service developed in the first half of the 20^th century. Southwark played a key role. An outstanding figure was Dr Alfred Salter, a socialist who practiced medicine in the borough from 1900 and whose campaigning on many social issues led to his becoming MP from 1922-1945. He and his family are commemorated by statues on the Bermondsey waterfront. Before this a stop at a plain 1937 building on Grange Rd. This is still an NHS Centre, but started as a local authority-run public health centre, the first in the country. Local authorities increasingly ran accessible heath centres in the 1930s.

12 mile, 2.5 hour ride, Bruce leading. Easy paced ride, but note there are some busy stretches of road on this route. Map at https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1llhVlmzv4WGATzCCzLafPpG2ax-6r0k&usp=sharing.