The Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine was established to supervise boards representing health professions, later becoming the Health and Care Professions Council.
Legislation enabled local authorities to provide assistance to voluntary and community groups to provide meals and recreational services for the elderly.
Legislation created the ministry and post of Minister of Social Security, merging the Ministry of Pensions and National Assistance with the Supplementary Benefits Commission.
'Administrative structure of the medical and related services in England and Wales' and 'Future structure of the National Health Service in England' proposed the creation of area authorities.
The Committee on Local Authority and Allied Personal Social Services, chaired by Lord Frederic Seebohm, recommended the amalgamation of functions including social care to form a single social services department.
The Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 received royal assent, enabling local authorities to employ voluntary organisations to promote the welfare of old people, and make charges for such arrangements.
The report of the committee of inquiry into allegations of ill–treatment of patients and other irregularities at the Ely Hospital in Cardiff recommended a system of inspection for hospitals.
