[2] The enquiry was called by the Conservative government[3] and announced on 1 April 1953 by the then Health Minister, Iain Macleod.
[2] The National Health Service (NHS) had been established in 1948 and, in its first few years, costs had risen faster than anticipated.
[5] For statistical background, the committee used a memorandum published by Cambridge University Press: "The Cost of the National Health Service in England and Wales" by Brian Abel-Smith and Richard Titmuss.
"[6] On its publication in 1956, Minister for Health Robin Turton told Parliament that the Government "broadly accepted" the conclusions of the Enquiry.
[7] An editorial in The Times said the report might superficially seem to be "a bluebook full of hogwash" but that in fact the committee had "argued their case with considerable thoroughness.