History Of Medicine- Patient Care KQ5 Flashcards
Name the 2 types of patient care in the medieval period?
Monasteries - infirmary was a type of separated from the rest of the monasteries
Hospitals - run by monks and nuns
Welsh example of patient care during the medieval period?
Cistercians built monasteries at Valle Crucis and Aberconwy
What progress was made during the early modern period towards patient care?
In London 5 major hospitals were endowed with royal funds to care for the sick and poor.
Population growth increased demand for hospitals. Wealthy industrialists paid for them
Name some voluntary hospitals in wales?
1807 Denbigh general dispensary and asylum for the recovery of health
1833 Wrexham established a dispensary
How did the death rate change in crimea wards after flornace nightingale?
42 in 100 to 2 in 100
What did Florence Nightingale do upon her return to Britain?
Began a campaign to reform army medical services, she called for purpose built hospitals with trained nurses.
In 1859 she published ‘notes on nursing’
Times Newspaper Florence Nightingale fund raised £50,000
Welsh example for industrial period patient care?
1854 Betsi Cadwaladr went to Crimea. She disagreed with Florence Nightingale and left for Scutari for a hospital at Balaclava. She caught cholera and had to leave crimea 1855
Give examples of welfare reforms in the early 20th century
Medical inspection of school pupils (1907)
Free school meals 1906
Old age pension 1908
Welsh example of early 20th century
Aneurin Bevan appointed minister for health
Argued that everybody has the right to medical treatment
Name services provided by the NHS
GP services
A and E
Hospital care
How did the church stop progress in medical care?
Did not allow any research or theory’s that did not fall in line with the teachings of God
This is why Galens ideas were beloved for so long
How did Henry the 8th influence progress in medical care ? During the early modern period
1536 Henry 8 shut down monasteries
Funded royal hospitals
Name some of the five hospitals Henry the 8th let stay open
St Bartholomew
St Mary Bethlehem
What were voluntary hospitals ?
voluntary hospitals paid for philanthropists and staffed by doctors who worked unpaid. Care given was usually free.
When they were opened these voluntary hospitals offered very basic care but over time, they developed to offer simple surgeries and the setting of bones
