Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Development of the NHS
- 5th July 1948
- First day of the National Health
Service
- The nationalisation of
hospitals
- The creation of health centres
- The better distribution
of doctors around the
country
- A new salary
structure for doctors
- Services available to all
- Hospitals
- Specialists
- Dentists
- Medicines and appliances
- Family doctors
- Ambulances
- Vaccinations
- Why was the NHS introduced?
- Due to WWII, the government
knew that there had to be
adequate medical resources
due to the large amounts of
casualties
- The government had to
increase their involvement
in medical care
- In 1942, leading civil servant,
William Beveridge, put forward his
ideas about a free national health
service as part of a complete re think
of the governments national
insurance scheme
- Opposition
- The cost
- Private doctors
- Insisted on the right to
continue treating some
patients privately
- Lose out financially
- No professional freedom