The Health Services
1944-05 1944 1940s 23 pages 12 (d) Over the doctor's performance of his duties. Medicine is a trade as well as a profession. Practitioners are competing with each other ; medical practices are bought and sold ; it is his wealthy patients whom the doctor must impress in order to earn a good...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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| Language: | English English |
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London : C. W. Publishing Ltd.
May 1944
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10796/E8448328-D85C-401E-8C43-8668FC3E913B http://hdl.handle.net/10796/00B19D7E-FD19-41BE-A566-EC6F03321BC6 |
| Summary: | 1944-05
1944
1940s
23 pages
12 (d) Over the doctor's performance of his duties. Medicine is a trade as well as a profession. Practitioners are competing with each other ; medical practices are bought and sold ; it is his wealthy patients whom the doctor must impress in order to earn a good income. (e) Over the patient's decision to consult a doctor. Many people receive no medical attention at all because they cannot afford it ; many more postpone seeing a doctor, in the hope of avoiding fees, until cure is difficult or impossible. The people most likely to be neglected in this way are (i) children between one and five, in the gap between infant welfare and school medical services ; (ii) married women, who are not insured, unless under some voluntary scheme ; (iii) non-manual workers with incomes just over £420 — too high to come under National Health Insurance, and too low to pay the heavy fees of private practice. (f) Over the extent of medical research. Medical research is financed by the Government to the extent of a niggardly £250,000 per annum. It is interesting to compare this with the £3,000,000 spent by manufacturers of proprietary medicines in advertising their highly dubious products. 3. — Inadequacy of N.H.I. — The National Health Insurance Scheme provides — a limited number of people It does not include dependants of insured persons, non-employed persons of limited means, and non-manual workers with incomes of more than £420 per year. with a limited medical services It does not include, for instance, specialist and consultant, hospital and maternity services and its cash benefits are insufficient. which is unequally distributed, For the same insurance contribution some persons get higher benefits than others, depending upon the approved societies of which they are members. administratively divided, Insurance committees administer the medical benefit, approximately 1,000 approved societies administer cash and "additional" benefits.
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