Britain Transformed A-Level History Summary Notes: Healthcare
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History for Edexcel A Level: Democracies in change: Britain and the USA in the twentieth century
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Healthcare
1918 healthcare
Most healthcare private
National health insurance for low paid employees earning under £160- provided sick pay
and free medical treatment, unemployed not covered however.
Charities and philanthropies helped
Poor law
Workhouses infirmaries converted into hospitals
Within the earlier period 18-39, a consensus emerged that there should be reform
Healthcare consensus
Widely agreed importance of medical advances
Illnesses like cancer fatal- still focus on making as comfortable as possible for inevitable
death
Widely believed gov had a role and should:
> invest in research and training
>organise a network of hospitals
>Play role in rationing healthcare
Disagreements:
Fabian society- centralised state planned healthcare 1918
Labour Party 1919- first to advocate a free national health service
The British Medical Association- regional system of healthcare
Dawson report (gov commissioned) 1920- recommends network of state funded+
organised hospitals
Healthcare 1
, 1926 Royal Commission- regional structure for healthcare but funding for unified
national heath insurance
1930s- private hospitals and voluntary hospitals lobbied unsuccessfully for gov funding
The Voluntary Hospitals Commissions 1935- Argued gov should merge voluntary and
local authority hospitals to bring expertise and finance together
1937- Report on the British Health Service- recommended regional model w/ central gov
planning
Consensus in gov planning and regional | left advocates an entirely national healthcare
system
Government action 1919-29
Point Explain Anything else Impact
administered funds
co-ordinated health at a
Ministry of health 1919 raised by the NHI
regional level
scheme
• The Ministry of
Health Act 1919- • The Tuberculosis
Medical research Act 1921- made
• Before war: TB
council created, sanatoria of local
sanatoria, funded by
research the causes • authorities compulsory
Tuberculosis national insurance, try
Council was publicly • These led to the
to slow the spread of
funded, independent of number of cases
disease.
gov control, ministers declining every year
had no power over from 1920-38
scientific findings
Local Government Act >Passed responsibility Minister of health- Led to the
1929 of poor law hospitals to Neville chamberlain reorganisation of
county councils. >poor healthcare on regional
law infirmaries allowed basis | created single
to change into public health authority | co-
hospitals. > local ordinated in each
authorities responsible borough | enabled local
for running fo venereal authorities to provide
disease clinics, child service to ensure
welfare, dentistry, population of area | Did
not lead to cheap,
Healthcare 2
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