Everyone warns Prime Minister Clement Attlee not to appoint Welsh socialist Nye Bevan as Minister for Health. And Dr Eva Callaway gets off to an explosive start on her first day at Manchester's Park Hospital.
Against the odds and against the clock, Nye Bevan is charged with creating the world's first national health service. At home, his marriage is as fiery as the centre-stage politics. Meanwhile, we meet the front-line medical staff and patients whose lives and limbs are at stake.—Paul Birch, Kenton Hall, Story by Ian Haig