TY - JOUR T1 - In Place of Fear JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 371 LP - 371 DO - 10.3399/bjgp19X704669 VL - 69 IS - 685 AU - Roger Jones Y1 - 2019/08/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/69/685/371.abstract N2 - This month’s issue of the BJGP takes vulnerable people as its theme, with articles on the homeless, frail older people, asylum seekers and refugees, people with multimorbidity, and the socioeconomically deprived. Each of these groups can face challenges in obtaining access to high-quality health care, coping with everyday life, and pursuing fulfilling work and leisure activities ... but doesn’t that sound familiar? The reality is that we are all vulnerable people. Ill-health simply adds to the range of threats that we face on a day-to-day basis, whether from pollution or climate change, violence or terrorism, failing economies, or failing governments.Aneurin Bevan, the architect of the NHS, understood much of this when he wrote In Place of Fear in 1952, in which he described the establishment of a national health service which … ER -