the National Insurance Act 1911 for workers and their families, the National Emergency Medical Service of World War II, and the (William) Beveridge Report of 1942. The National Health Service in 1948 extended health care security to all legal residents. The British developed a unique and important model of health care that is widely influential in other national health systems. It is popular and was successful in achieving its initial goals and has since undergone periodic reforms since its inception in 1948, surviving many changes of government and political philosophy.