Legacy

• While summertime and Italy go hand in hand, some of Tuscany’s most renowned hotels and resorts celebrate springtime festivities with unique experiences.
• When she opened her apron upon being questioned, it had miraculously turned into flowers, sparing her from punishment.
• Now, the city of Lucca celebrates with the Festival of the Flowers on the anniversary of her death, April 27.
• Overlooking the church and town of Barga is Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco Resort & Spa , an ideal home base to celebrate all Easter celebrations.

• MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- A historic international fundraising campaign to protect and restore wetland habitats across North America has reached the $2 billion mark.
• Our Legacy " aims to raise $3 billion by 2026 to provide cleaner water for communities and wildlife.
• Conservation For a Continent is one of the largest fundraising efforts launched in North America devoted to landscape conservation and the future of our outdoors heritage.
• "This $2 billion milestone speaks to the trust our supporters have in these organizations to deliver new heights of conservation," said Ducks Unlimited President Chuck Smith.

• It also unveiled a new strategic framework with the company's plans to accelerate ESG progress across the board.
• "In sharing this report, we're committed to providing stakeholders with transparent information on our projects, practices, and policies," said Clark Porter, President of William Warren Group, which owns and operates StorQuest.
• "As a company, William Warren Group and StorQuest Self Storage are focused on innovating and building for the long term.
• Through decarbonization initiatives and the purchase of verified carbon offset credits, WWG has achieved carbon neutrality at the asset level since 2021.

• Securing the reluctant assent of general practitioners (GPs) was one of Labour health minister Nye Bevan’s most difficult tasks in founding the NHS by July 5 1948.
• Bevan’s eventual compromise with the doctors’ union representing GPs, the British Medical Association (BMA), still casts its shadow over health services today.
• Bevan became minister on August 5 1945, inheriting a legacy of attempts to create a health service during the second world war.
• These different groups of doctors were the hospital specialists and consultants, local authority medical officers and GPs.

Troublesome

• While Bevan bought hospital specialists and consultants and sold out the ideals of local authority medical officers, GPs remained troublesome throughout negotiations, right up to the day the NHS began.
• GPs remained independent doctors who ran their own surgeries, maintaining their own list of patients.
• Poor pay from the 1911 reforms meant lists were bloated for GPs to remain afloat, especially in deprived areas.
• Together, these last-minute concessions meant the NHS launched to much fanfare in Park Hospital, Trafford, by Bevan on July 5 1948.

Legacy

• Despite recurrent rounds of reforms over the intervening decades, GPs remain mostly independent doctors contracted to provide certain services rather than salaried workers.
• Despite these losses, the basic professional model that GPs fought hard to retain in 1948 – one dating back to 1911 – remains recognisable today.

Michael Lambert has received funding from the Economic and Social Research Council, Wellcome Trust, and National Institute for Health Research.