Events and news
The NHS belongs to all of us and we are keen for as many people as possible to get the opportunity to mark the NHS’s 75th birthday.
NHS and other bodies across the country are organising an exciting array of events.
They are a great way to learn more about the NHS – its history, plans for the future and to meet the staff who make it what it is.
You can also find out more about how you can support the NHS, for instance by volunteering, supporting NHS charities or by giving blood.
We will be updating the programme of events on a regular basis, so please check back regularly.
If you are organising your own event to mark the birthday and would like to add it our website, email us at england.nhs75@nhs.net.
Events
We will be updating the programme of events on a regular basis, so please check back regularly.
- Thursday 22 June – Windrush Day*
- Wednesday 14 to Thursday 15 June – ConfedExpo
- Saturday 1 July to Sunday 9 July – host an NHS Big Tea
- Monday 3 July to Saturday 2 September – NHS Untold Stories Exhibition*
- Wednesday 5 July – NHS birthday
- Service for NHS staff, volunteers and partners at Westminster Abbey**
- Light Up Blue
- Wednesday 5 July to 31 August – ‘Our NHS at 75’ photo exhibition
- Thursday 6 July – George Cross tour commences
- Saturday 8 July – ‘parkrun for the NHS’
- Sunday 9 July – ‘parkrun for the NHS’ (juniors)
- Thursday 27 July – Science Museum Late*
* Events organised by third parties.
** Tickets for this event will be made available via local NHS bodies.
News and blogs
- Working in research – Diya’s story
- Mental health exhibition launched to mark NHS’s 75th
- Celebrating the role of innovation in the NHS
- University helps NHS workers tell their personal stories for 75th anniversary of NHS
- Science Museum Late to explore the past, present and future of healthcare
- 75 trees to mark the NHS’s 75th
- BBC One’s Casualty to air special episode to mark NHS 75th
- More than 185,000 parkrunners celebrate the NHS’s 75th anniversary
- NHS celebrated on iconic Piccadilly lights
- Royals host NHS Big Tea to mark the NHS’s 75th birthday
- George Cross goes on display at the Science Museum
- NHS’s 75th marked at Pride in London
- BBC New Thinking podcast for NHS75
- NHS staff welcomed to The Championships, Wimbledon
- MPs don running shoes for NHS’s 75th
- NHS birthday marked at Westminster Abbey service
- 150 buildings go blue for NHS birthday
- Royal Voluntary Service calls for more volunteers in the NHS’s 75th year
- Artist, illustrator and author Charlie Mackesy marks the NHS’s 75th
- Our mental health director wishes happy birthday to the NHS
- Outernet London hosts immersive NHS75 display
- British sporting stars unite to celebrate NHS’s 75th birthday
- Heart of the Nation: Migration and the Making of the NHS
- Blog: Rooted in the community – the NHS and the enduring power of giving, volunteering and charity
- NHS marks 75 years of Windrush
- Portrait of nurse of 47 years among winners of NHS staff and volunteers photography competition
- Royal Mail postmark celebrates NHS’s 75th
- New BBC films educate children about the NHS
- Special service at Westminster Abbey to celebrate NHS 75th birthday
- London College of Communication students work together on live NHS75 brief
- Hollywood actor Tom Hardy reads bedtime story to mark NHS’s 75th
- The Sun’s Who Cares Wins Awards 2023
- CBeebies presenter George Webster backs ‘parkrun for the NHS’
- New book celebrates NHS staff at 75
- Put on an ‘NHS Big Tea’ this Thank You Day!
- Blog: Field nursing and leadership – Bethan’s story
- NHS to make Glastonbury debut
- Our NHS at 75 – Shortlist Announced
- Allied Health Professionals from the Windrush era: a celebration of their achievements
- NHS staff tour Tilbury Docks to commemorate Windrush, also in its 75th anniversary year
- BBC One’s Repair Shop special to mark NHS’s 75th
- London Metropolitan Archives celebrates the history of London’s Hospitals
- TV doctor and top NHS clinicians launch ‘parkrun for the NHS’
- Get wild for the NHS
- Stars appear with NHS staff in new Rankin exhibition
- Royal Mint celebrates 75 years of the NHS
- Tennis star Sir Andy Murray OBE backs ‘parkrun for the NHS’
- Next generation of filmmakers commissioned to tell NHS untold film stories
- Celebrating the NHS’s 75th at NHS ConfedExpo
- NHS Chief Executive goes back to school to celebrate the NHS’s 75th anniversary
- Bill Bailey to present NHS75 Extraordinary Portraits
- NIHR launches Shape The Future campaign in support of NHS75
- Hydrate the Nation 30 day Challenge
- TeenTech Innovation Challenge for NHS 75
- George cross to tour the nation to mark NHS 75th birthday
- Raise a cuppa to mark the NHS’s 75th
- Flying the Windrush flag
- Dr Jon Williamson – life through the lens as an Anaesthetic Registrar
- Our NHS at 75 – telling the stories of NHS staff and volunteers through the lens
- Light up blue for NHS75!
- Emma Bridgewater unveils mug to mark NHS’s 75th
- Ending Hepatitis C in England
- Healthcare leaders go back to school
- 75 years of NHS honoured on pandemic anniversary
- The NHS Parliamentary Awards for the 75th anniversary
- Sharing the stories of NHS staff and volunteers
- Schools talks to mark NHS’s 75th anniversary
- 75 years young – Why having an innovation culture is so vital to the NHS’s longevity
- Celebrating Windrush – grants available for local communities
- Award winning poet to be Writer in Residence at Trafford General Hospital to celebrate the NHS’s 75th anniversary
- ‘Parkrun for the NHS’ – celebrating the NHS’s 75th anniversary
- The Repair Shop marks NHS75
- NHS 50p coin marks 75th anniversary