Creation of Welfare State - Healthcare
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- Healthcare
- Interwar years
- Consensus
- Government leadership over healthcare
- Development of hospital networks
- Investment in medical advances
- Government leadership over healthcare
- Ministry of Health - 1919
- War
recruitment uncovered poor standard of health
- 40% of men declared unfit for combat
- lacked the authority and political will
- School medical services + Factory Health Inspectorate still externally controlled
- War
recruitment uncovered poor standard of health
- Insurance, GPs and Hospitals
- Post WWI saw large insurance companies control 75% of health insurance
- came through the state due to the 1911
- ‘Approved
Societies’ collected subscriptions
- 1937 18 mn workers were covered by state health insurance
- GP’s were
the first resort for medical care
- Patients had to pay
- GP’s
were unevenly distributed, with more working in wealthier areas
- GP’s were a last resort for the poor
- best
hospitals were teaching hospital
- only 12 in London and 10 in provinces
- Post WWI saw large insurance companies control 75% of health insurance
- Local
Government Act of 1929
- Poor Law Hospitals were now in the hands of local government
- 1938 England and Wales provided 75 000 general hospital beds
- Consensus
- Pre 1918
- Before 1911
- Wealth
- Wealthy people could afford health care
- Poor people didn't have healthcare
- Often became ill from self medication
- Workhouses treated the poor
- Friendly societies provided schemes
- Unregulated and often went bankrupt
- Wealth
- 1911 National Insurance Act
- Introduced by the liberals
- Compulsory healthcare insurance
- For low paid workers who earn < £160 per year
- Employers, employees, and government paid into scheme
- Only covered 6 industries
- Before 1911
- Impact of WWII
- consensus on healthcare
- Emergency
Medical Service 1939
- provide
first aid for air raid casualties
- later used to treat civilians and evacuated children
- Blueprint for the NHS
- provide
first aid for air raid casualties
- NHS
- Aneurin Bevan
- 1946 NHS Act
- Conservatives
- Voted against the act 21 times
- “medical Gestapo" used against NHS
- Bevan called them "the lowest of vermin"
- British Medical Association
- Main opponent of the NHS
- February
1948, 90% of the BMA voted against
- 75% of the population registered with the nhs
- February
1948, 90% of the BMA voted against
- "stuffing their mouths with gold
- Let them work private and for NHS
- 90% of doctors joined NHS in July 1848
- Let them work private and for NHS
- Main opponent of the NHS
- Conservatives
- Post 1951
- Change
- first 10 years saw TB cases fall by 80%
- Polio eradicated
- maternal death decreased from 0.1% to 0.018%
- 300 inadequate hospitals closed and 60 excellent opened
- Increased life expectancy
- first 10 years saw TB cases fall by 80%
- Rising Costs
- Estimated fall in NHS cost
- 1950-1970 4.1% GNP to 4.8%
- antibiotics increase 1 to 33
- double NHS workers
- 500,000 to 1mn
- Reliance on NHS
- "Dandruff Syndrome"
- Estimated fall in NHS cost
- Medical advances
- DNA modelled by 2 british scientists in 1953
- First kidney transplantin 1960
- First heart transplant 1968
- Pill introduced 1961
- 1 million on the pill by 1967
- 1967 abotionas act
- Made abortions legal up to 28 weeks
- 1967 abotionas act
- 1 million on the pill by 1967
- Change
- Interwar years
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