Welcome
This year will see the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the NHS. In Yorkshire and the Humber, as elsewhere round the country, we are proud and privileged to work for a service which touches everyone in the region at some time in their life.
The communities we now serve are very different to when the NHS was set up. Public expectations are changing; working and family lives have altered; people are living longer and the patterns of disease are radically different from sixty years ago. Technological innovations – whether these are new drugs or new machines – have transformed the way in which we can deliver care. And research means we now know much more about what works and what doesn't.
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