First NHS baby: 'Good stories' should be publicised

The first baby born in an NHS hospital told ITV's Daybreak the good things the health service does should be publicised, as well as the bad.

Aneira Thomas, who turns 65 today, was the youngest of seven children but the first of them to be born in a hospital, she said.

Before the NHS, the cost of having a baby in hospital was one shilling and sixpence, with many working class families, like her Welsh miner father Willie and mother Edna, had their children at home with a neighbour acting as midwife.

She told ITV's Daybreak that while it was important to highlight its failures, the NHS was not championed enough.

She said: "You do hear the bad stories, which lessons have to be learned from obviously. But we don't seem to praise the good stories, they don't make the headlines."