The Health Services
1944-05 1944 1940s 23 pages 13 and divorced from the other health services. Its limited character has forced other agencies — public and charitable — to fill the gaps. In this way it has contributed to the piecemeal growth of the health services of the country and prevented the...
| 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/FB1FF595-9AF1-467B-8993-A4F490383310 http://hdl.handle.net/10796/B1FBD675-93DF-435F-85C0-4C3382151B4C |
| Summary: | 1944-05
1944
1940s
23 pages
13 and divorced from the other health services. Its limited character has forced other agencies — public and charitable — to fill the gaps. In this way it has contributed to the piecemeal growth of the health services of the country and prevented their co-ordination. A Practical Illustration. All three defects of the present services — the lack of co-ordination, the stranglehold of money, and the inadequacy of the N.H.I. scheme — are to some extent shown by this story of any insured worker who falls ill. Ill at home ............... Attended by Panel Doctor. Needs Specialist's advice... Hospital Outpatient Department (long wait) or private reduced fee consultation. Must go to hospital in ..... Local authority ambulance (to be paid for). Hospital treatment (assessment according to means or voucher from contributory scheme). Needs further treatment . Out-Patient Department (no transport). Needs special diet.......... Impossible if family is poor. Needs convalescent home Must try voluntary agencies all separate from hospital, unless the hospital has a convalescent home of its own, which is rare. Needs surgical appliance.. Must try his approved societies, the Surgical Aid Society or other voluntary association of which he may be a member. His family needs money .. He gets cash benefit (lower than unemployment benefit) through Approved Society (and possibly from a Voluntary Society). To eke it out the family must fall back on Public Assistance or their own savings. Result of a serious illness or accident — Loss of employment, savings, full working capacity, power of resistance, hope. What is needed — A complete medical service combined with adequate maintenance allowances ; convalescence to restore full working capacity ; retraining for a new occupation (if necessary) ; a suitable job. In short, Full Rehabilitation.
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