Elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Barnet in July 1945, he was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister and Lord President of the Council from 1947.

His model was rolled out to all major city centres across Britain, developing dental and nursing support within group practices.

Taylor sat on the Central Health Services Council, chaired by Sir Harry Cohen, the boss of Tesco.

Local doctors had traditionally worked alone or in pairs, but the report resulted in group practice becoming the norm in Britain.

On 8 August 1958, he was created a life peer by letters patent as Baron Taylor, of Harlow in the County of Essex on Gaitskell's recommendation.

[8] Taylor married Charity Clifford, a medical doctor and later Governor of Holloway Prison, in 1939.