Report on maternity insurance
1927 1927 1920s 16 pages 11 ROYAL COMMISSION ON NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE. In 1926, the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the scheme of National Health Insurance established by the National Health Acts, 1911-22, issued its Reports. The Majority Report proposed no new financial call on th...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
|---|---|
| Language: | English English |
| Published: |
London : Co-operative Printing Society Ltd.
1927
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10796/28AB72CD-C79B-4B70-A821-201C55FA4749 http://hdl.handle.net/10796/1DCF0BA4-E62C-4A8D-82CB-1C64491AE7AD |
| Summary: | 1927
1927
1920s
16 pages
11 ROYAL COMMISSION ON NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE. In 1926, the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the scheme of National Health Insurance established by the National Health Acts, 1911-22, issued its Reports. The Majority Report proposed no new financial call on the Exchequer in view of the present depressed state of national finance. There was, however, a margin of £2,000,000 which even under these circumstances they found they could allocate to extended services. After much consideration they gave priority to the proposal to devote this margin to cash benefits for dependants rather than to maternity insurance.* The extended provision for maternity insurance was left to be met so soon as money was available. The confusion which results from the present system by which medical benefit under the National Health Insurance Acts is divorced from the other public health services was recognised by their recommendation that the administration of the insurance medical service should be made a function of the Local Authority, and the Insurance Committees should be abolished. The deferment of improved provision for maternity was explained on these grounds. As it was of the utmost importance that any such provision should be linked up in the closest possible way with the Maternity and Child Welfare Centres, the Majority suggested that it might be well to wait till the Local Authorities had become responsible for the insurance medical services as well as the other Public Health Services and had time to take stock of its position. The Majority also recommended a system of partial pooling, which would yield a sum to be spent on a much extended medical service and would be indirectly beneficial to the health of mother and child. The Actuarial Committee Report contains an estimate of "the cost of a new service to include all necessary medical attendance during pregnancy, the services of a midwife and (where required) a doctor at confinement, ante-natal and post-natal examination and a money payment" (of £1). The items of service on which the Report is based are :— s. d. Fees to midwife 30 0 Fees for ante-natal and post-natal examinations 10 0 Fee for risk of doctor's personal attendance on confine 5 0 Fee for medical attendance during pregnancy 10 6 Cash Benefit 20 0 * Page 151, Report of Royal Commission on National Health Insurance, 1926.
292/824/1/114 |
|---|---|
| Physical Description: | TEXT |