Healthy cities

Question 1

Which post-WWII report lead to the transfer of existing health & care facilities & staff to the NHS?

Answer 1

Beveridge Report

Question 2

What was assumed would happen once health care was freely available?

Answer 2

Nation would become healthier & demand for health care would decline

Question 3

What did the the Guillebaud Committee report in 1956?

Answer 3

Ever increasing demand for health care
Insatiable demand for new treatments
Trend that continues to this day (joint replacements, transplants, etc.)

Question 4

Which committee published a report on the NHS in 1965?

Answer 4

Guillebaud

Question 5

What are the 3 different types of healthcare in the NHS?

Answer 5

primary care: GPs
acute care: general hospitals
tertiary care: long term care

Question 6

What has been the general trend in organising health services?

Answer 6

Consolidating services in a smaller number of larger facilities at the primary and acute level

Question 7

What does research suggest is a major determinants of health care utilisation rates?

Answer 7

Access

Question 8

What did the government introduce in 1975 based on Standardised Mortality Ratios?

Answer 8

A new method of funding: Resource Allocation Working Party (RAWP)

Question 9

What did the 1975 RAWP funding method reveal?

Answer 9

Significant regional inequalities in resource allocation compared with ‘need’ from 85 in North West to 114 in North East Thames