938350
Description
Labour in power
- 1945 general election
- Unpopularity of Conservatives
- Churchill's lack of sympathy in
General Strike put people off
- Churchill's comment that Labour would
need "some sort of Gestapo"
- Association with depression + appeasement
- Opposition to the welfare state
- Reliance on Churchill in campaigns +
smear campaign against Labour
- Churchill's lack of sympathy in
General Strike put people off
- Appeal of Labour
- People wanted reform
- Not as tired as Conservatives
- Attlee was calm + confident
- Labour's important role in wartime
government (Morrison, Bevin, Cripps)
- Promised change - no mistakes
- People wanted reform
- Unpopularity of Conservatives
- Beveridge Report 1942
- Want - lack of basic needs
- Squalor - poor living conditions (introduction
of new houses)
- Ignorance - lack of education (education reform
1944, introduction of tripartite system)
- Disease - poor healthcare
- Idleness - unemployment
(large job schemes)
- Five giant problems
- Want - lack of basic needs
- Attack on want
- Family allowance: 1945 - 5 shillings/week
for additional children to 16 or in work (no means test)
- National insurance: 1946 - taxpayers paid,
sickness benefit indefinitely, unemployment
benefit for 6 months
- Industrial Injuries Act, 1946: tribunals to determine
compensation for injuries at work
- National Assistance Act 1948: prevented
extreme poverty, minimum income for all
- Family allowance: 1945 - 5 shillings/week
for additional children to 16 or in work (no means test)
- Origins of the NHS
- National Health
Service Act 1946
- Aneurin Bevan
Minister of Health
- Free medical, dental, hospital, ophthalmological treatment
- Free medicine, spectacles, false teeth
- Hospitals in government
control
- Councils provided midwives,
home nurses + ambulances
- Paid for by tax
- Doctors paid by NHS
- BMA opposition of losing independence, so
allowed to treat private patients
- Began 5 Jul 1948
- National Health
Service Act 1946
- Consequences of the NHS
- Successes
- Improvements in medicine (fall in
infant mortality)
- Better provision for elderly
- Ante-natal clinics + maternity benefit
- Reduction of disease
- Massive use of dental treatment
- Improvements in medicine (fall in
infant mortality)
- Failures
- Expensive (£400mn
in first year)
- Taxpayers thought money
squandered
- System abused
- Double standards of private practice
- Charges introduced - Bevan resigned
- Expensive (£400mn
in first year)
- Successes
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