2 health provison, 1918-1945

Question 1

Healthcare in 1918

Answer 1

1911: National health insurance for employees earning under £160 a year, this meant sick pay and medical treatment for free.

Private charitable healthcare groups for the poor

poor law

workhouses

Question 2

healthcare 1918-1939

Answer 2

new consensus between medical professionals and government about the problems of the system, and there were lots of government reforms

Question 3

healthcare consensus

Answer 3

more money should be spent on healthcare. Treatment still mainly concerned with making the patient as comfortable as possible, which was ineffective

there was also a consensus that the government should invest in research and medical training, organise the roles of hospitals and healthcare

Question 4

how did the fabian society propose reform for healthcaer?

Answer 4

state planned healthcare

Question 5

how did the BMA propose healthcare reform?

Answer 5

regionally organised healthcare

Question 6

how did the 1920 Dawson report suggest healthcare reform?

Answer 6

state funded hospitals

Question 7

how did the voluntary hospitals commission suggest healthcare reform?

Answer 7

voluntary and local authority hospitals

Question 8

what reform did take place?

Answer 8

1919 there was a new ministry of health, who coordinated health at a regional level

Question 9

Ministry of Health Act 1919

Answer 9

created the medical research council to research the causues of tuberculosis

Question 10

tuberculosis act 1921

Answer 10

made the provision of TB sanatoria compulsory, cases declined in the following years.

Question 11

Local Government Act 1929

Answer 11

made the poor law hospitals country and borough councils’ responsibility.
Allowed county councils to convert poor law infirmaries into public hospitals.
Gave local authorities responsibility for running clinics for other diseases such as veneral disease

singel health authority that coordinated healthcare in each county or borough

Question 12

healthcare in the depression

Answer 12

less than half the pop insured against any disease in 1929.

Insurance and health services were unaffordable, and those that were uninsured had to rely on private healthcare, which was often unaffordable

Question 13

innovations of heatlhcare during the depresh?

Answer 13

local hospitals began experiemtns on preventative healthcare after world war 1, especially diet and hygeine researsc.