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Mutualism and health care : British hospital contributory schemes in the twentieth century / Martin Gorsky and John Mohan, with Tim Willis.
Lippincott Library HG9399.G7 G672 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gorsky, Martin, 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mutualism--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Mutualism.
- Health insurance--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Health insurance.
- Financial Management, Hospital--history.
- History.
- United Kingdom.
- Delivery of Health Care--methods.
- Economics, Hospital--history.
- Financial Support.
- History, 20th Century.
- Great Britain.
- Medical Subjects:
- Financial Management, Hospital--history.
- United Kingdom.
- Delivery of Health Care--methods.
- Economics, Hospital--history.
- Financial Support.
- History, 20th Century.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 243 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- "Mutualism and health care" presents the first comprehensive account of a major innovation in hospital funding before the NHS. The voluntary hospitals, which provided the bulk of Britain' s acute hospital services, diversified their financial base by establishing hospital contributory schemes. Through these, working people subscribed small, regular amounts to their local hospitals, in return for which they were eligible for free hospital care. This book evaluates the extent to which the schemes were successful in achieving comprehensive coverage of the population, funding hospital services, and broadening opportunities for participation in the governance of health care and for the expression of consumer views.
- Contents:
- 2 The emergence of hospital contributory schemes 18
- 3 Mass contribution and hospital finance in inter-war Britain 43
- 4 The geography of hospital contributory schemes: membership, reciprocity and integration 70
- 5 Hospital contribution and civil society: humanity not democracy? 92
- 6 Contributory schemes, working-class governors and local control of hospital policy 124
- 7 The 'impending cataclysm': the state and hospital contribution, 1941-46 145
- 8 The contributory schemes and the coming of the National Health Service 166
- 9 'Where the shoe pinches': reorientation under the National Health Service 189
- 10 The health cash plans and the new mutualism in health care 210.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780719065781
- 071906578X
- OCLC:
- 67871422
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