Public Health in the 20th Century

Question 1

Who was Bevan?

Answer 1

The minister appointed to introduce the NHS.

Question 2

What were the arguements for the NHS?

Answer 2

✅Free medical attention and medicine for all was believed to be necessary.

✅Needed to cope with large numbers of civilian casualties after WW2.

Question 3

What were the arguements against the NHS?

Answer 3

❌Local authorities and voluntary bodies who ran hospitals didn’t want to become nationalised.

❌The cost of the NHS would result in higher taxes.

❌The British Medical Association➡️Doctors didn’t want to be employed by the government as it would result in a loss of income.

Question 4

What was the NHS?

Answer 4

A free national health service.

Question 5

What impact did the NHS have on women?

Answer 5

Care for women became a priority and maternal mortality reduced.

Question 6

What impact did the NHS have on family doctors?

Answer 6

Transformed the role of family doctors, GPs worked as part of a team offering the whole range of health services.

Question 7

What problems has the NHS faced?

Answer 7

❌Prescription charges 1950s.

❌Charges to services like dentistry introduced.

❌Lack of money= hospital beds unused despite demand.

❌Some refused costly services.

Question 8

What problems were there in healthcare in the 1930s?

Answer 8

• Healthcare only available to workers➡️Not women, children, unemployed, elderly or ill.
• Lack of availability made worse as more people became unemployed in/after the Depression.