I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.

The son of a coal miner Bevan was a lifelong champion of social justice and the rights of working people. rin]; 15 November 1897 – 6 July 1960) was a Welsh Labour Party politician who was the Minister for Health in the post-war Attlee government from 1945 to 1951 and also the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1959 until his death in 1960.