Healthcare in Britain
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- HEALTHCARE
- 1918-1939
- Ministry of Health 1919
- lacked political will and authority to radically change the system
- first attempt by central government
- limited to helping in voluntary hospitals
- 12 in London and 10 in provinces
- Health Insurance
- friendly societies set up to help the poor
- many went bankrupt
- poor people had less opportunities
- maternal mortality rates 50% higher in low income families
- improvement from the 19111 insurance act (only workers)
- 18 million workers covered by health insurance by 1939
- friendly societies set up to help the poor
- Local Government act 1929
- PAC's developed infirmaries into proper hospitals
- no force or time scale
- infant mortalitiy rate improved
- 1910 14.3/1000
- 1938 12/1000
- Ministry of Health 1919
- 1939-1979
- World War 2
- emergency medical service 1939
- first aid and casualty clearing for those wounded in air raids
- government had control over hospitals
- basis of post war healthcare service
- rationing improved healthcare
- poor ate more and rich ate less
- post war consensus favoured national system
- white paper 1944 recommended national system paid by taxation
- new technology e.g. treating burns
- emergency medical service 1939
- Aneurin Bevan
- minister of health in post war Attlee government
- directed the system with policies
- mass immunisation
- reduction of polio in the 1950's
- 90% drop in whooping cough
- mass immunisation
- overcome opposition from doctors
- 90% of BMA voted againsr joining the NHS
- February 1948
- granting doctors fees for patients in their books
- allowed consultations of private practice
- 90% of BMA voted againsr joining the NHS
- NHS was run by priveleged groups
- same as pre war healthcare
- Medical Advancement
- public began to expect more (1960's and 1970's)
- led to increasing costs
- NHS 4.1% of GNP in 1950
- increased to 4.8%by 1970
- NHS 4.1% of GNP in 1950
- led to increasing costs
- radical procedures and medicine on wider scale
- e.g. antibiotics
- 1948 one avaliable
- 1968 there was 33
- 1948 one avaliable
- e.g. antibiotics
- just focused on improving the system
- public began to expect more (1960's and 1970's)
- World War 2
- 1918-1939
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