creation of theNational Health Service

a study of pressure groups and a major social policy decision

by Arthur J. Willcocks

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Published 1967 by Routledge & K.P. in London .
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Edition Notes

Statement	by Arthur J.Willcocks.
Series	Library of social policy and administration
The Physical Object
Pagination	118p.,20cm
Number of Pages	118
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL20139518M

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The foundation of the National Health Service on 5 July was a momentous development in the history of the United Kingdom. Issues of health care touch the lives of everyone, and the NHS has come to be regarded as the cornerstone of the welfare state and as a model for state-organisedhealth care systems elsewhere. Yet throughout its history, the Service has existed .   The Creation of Britain’s Welfare State Share Flipboard Email as well as the National Insurance Act of which provided health insurance. Under this system, the friendly societies and other bodies continued to run the healthcare institutions, but the government organized the payments in and out. The solution was a welfare state.

Excellent question: thanks for asking. Significant opposition. Especially from Doctors (BMA) but also from local government (who managed some hospitals etc until then) and -obviously- Tory party. This is interesting While there are different views.   The National Institutes of Health traces its roots to , when a one-room laboratory was created within the Marine Hospital Service (MHS), predecessor agency to the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS). The MHS had been established in to provide for the medical care of merchant seamen. In the s, the MHS had been charged by Congress with. All photos are courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and/or the Department of Health and Human Services. The following sources were used in the development of the timeline content: U.S. National Library of Medicine, and Fitzhugh Mullan, Plagues and Politics: The Story of the United States Public Health Service ().

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