ABSTRACT
In 1934, Lord John Henderson Hunt was awarded a doctorate from the University of Oxford for his work on Raynaud’s syndrome. During the same year he was awarded Member of the Royal College of Physicians. In 1937, Lord Hunt made the decision to enter general practice, joining George Cregan as a partner in his practice at 83 Sloane Street, London. Second World War, Lord Hunt served as a neurologist with the rank of Wing Commander in the Royal Air Force from 1940 to 1945. When the National Health Service (NHS) was formed in 1948, he made the decision not to enter it but to set up his own practice, also on Sloane Street. A report published in 1950 by Joseph Collins in The Lancet detailed the limitations of the early NHS which summarised it as having overworked and demoralised doctors providing low standards of patient care.
