Sir Henry Urmston Willink, 1st Baronet, MC, PC, QC (7 March 1894 – 20 July 1973) was a British politician and public servant.

[1] During his time in power he was appointed Special Commissioner for those made homeless by the London Blitz and was involved with the production of the Beveridge Report.

[4] Such a policy was later implemented by the Labour Party through the creation of the National Health Service which differed from the proposals suggested by Willink.

Willink was made a privy counsellor in 1943, the year he became Minister of Health, a role in which he served until the Conservatives lost the 1945 general election.

Willink, with John Hawton, was responsible for the 1944 White Paper, following the Beveridge Report, called A National Health Service.

Willink resigned from Parliament on 29 January 1948, and the subsequent by-election was won resoundingly by Conservative Fred Harris, with a majority of almost 12,000 votes, despite a ballot of high-profile candidates.

In 1938 Willink stood as a Conservative in Ipswich to replace the incumbent MP John Ganzoni, but lost to Richard Stokes.