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
      • 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
      • 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 
      • 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
    • 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
      • 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
    • 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
    • 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
          • "stuffing their mouths with gold
            • Let them work private and for NHS
              • 90% of doctors joined NHS in July 1848
    • 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
      • 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"
      • 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

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