Proposals for a National Health Service
1946-01 1946 1940s 16 pages Charges for Certain Services 47. The normal position will be that the whole range of the health service will be available free of charge to all who wish to use it - the cost being met partly from the Exchequer, partly from local rates (with Exchequer subsidy), partly fro...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
| Language: | English English |
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[c. January 1946]
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| Summary: | 1946-01
1946
1940s
16 pages
Charges for Certain Services 47. The normal position will be that the whole range of the health service will be available free of charge to all who wish to use it - the cost being met partly from the Exchequer, partly from local rates (with Exchequer subsidy), partly from the produce of national insurance contributions. There will be some parts of the service, however, or supplements to the service, in which some payment by the patient will arise, as follows:- (a) Home Helps (paragraph 23 above) will be the subject of a charge according to the ability of the household to pay. (b) Certain supplements, like the provision of special foods in maternity and child welfare or the provision of bedding in after-care services, may be the subject of charges or part-charges. (c) Appliances will be supplied free, up to a standard sufficient to restore the fullest possible working capacity and with reasonable amenity. But there will be charges for premature renewal (in case of negligence, etc.), and it will be made possible (e.g. in the case of spectacles, or dentures) for those who wish to obtain articles of "luxury" standard - i.e. over and above the good and sound article publicly provided - to do so by paying the difference. (d) In hospital, the free service will provide all that is necessary to a good, and not a minimum, standard. But there will be scope for people to obtain additional amenities (e.g. private rooms, where those are not medically necessary) by payment of the extra cost involved. (e) In some hospitals provision will be made (in separate parts of the hospital) to enable any specialist staff engaged only on a part-time basis to see private patients there and to admit them to pay-bed accommodation if they so choose; provided that - (i) this is restricted to specialists serving in the hospital; (ii) the private patients' fees are within a controlled scale; (iii) there is no encroachment on necessary general hospital accommodation; (iv) the whole arrangement is so designed as to further its purpose, which are to prevent the national hospital service /driving
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