In 1939 the emergency hospital scheme came into operation in Britain. It provided priorities to the service patients and war-related casualties in hospital service. The emergency hospital scheme made a contribution to the success of the war,but it deprived the basic medical needs of ordinary civilian sick,overloaded the hospital staffs with work and exposed inequalities in hospital care and hospital feeding. The success of the scheme was attributing to sacrifice of the personal right of health. It was a reflection of British civilians’ patriotism during the war. Meanwhile,it raised serious doubts about the system of medical service and laid the foundation of the postwar health care reform.