Hospital Contributory Schemes (memorandum)
1942-07-20 1942 1940s 5 pages MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND NATIONAL SERVICE Welfare Advisory Committee (South Wales) Hospital Contributory Schemes The income of voluntary hospitals was originally derived entirely from subscriptions, donations and bequests invited from those who could afford to make them b...
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1942
1940s
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MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND NATIONAL SERVICE Welfare Advisory Committee (South Wales) Hospital Contributory Schemes The income of voluntary hospitals was originally derived entirely from subscriptions, donations and bequests invited from those who could afford to make them but with the increased demands made upon the services of the hospitals during the present century additional sources of revenue had to be found. Among these new sources of revenue the hospital contributory scheme is by far the most important. Schemes associated with a Single Hospital. In its simplest form the hospital contributory scheme is organised for the purpose of raising a fund for the support of a single hospital and covers the area served by the hospital sponsoring the scheme. There are approximately thirty such schemes in Wales of which the largest are a) The Cardiff Hospital Scheme supporting the Royal Infirmary b) The Royal Gwent Hospital Workmen's Fund c) The Swansea General and Eye Hospital Contributory Scheme Employees of most of the industrial undertakings in the three towns have an opportunity of authorising deductions to be made from their wages and to be paid over by their employers to the appropriate Scheme or Fund A note at the foot of the form of authorisation used by Messrs. Spillers Ltd., of Cardiff states:- "2d per week contributed towards Cardiff Royal Infirmary entitles you and your dependants to an out-patients or an in-patient's ticket. This also entitles the contributor (only) to 4 weeks free treatment at Llandough Hospital, but payment of 3d per week would include your dependants for the same period. Application for treatment should be made to the Cardiff Royal Infirmary in the first instance" and the suggestion that varying contributions are paid and varying benefits expected is borne out by investigation. As will be seen below employees at Bridgend R.O.F. pay 2d per week to the Royal Infirmary while those at Glascoed R.O.F. pay 3d per week. At Messrs. Guest, Keen & Nettlefolds, Cardiff works some employees have been paying 2d per week to the Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, for which they would receive no benefit whatever, though they were unaware of this when authorising the deductions from their wages. Generally, however, a weekly contribution of 3d is paid in the Cardiff, Newport and Swansea areas, though there is considerable dissatisfaction among workpeople when it is discovered that, in addition to the restriction of benefit in respect of treatment at Llandough Hospital, their contributions do not in any way cover their treatment at such places as the City Lodge Fracture Clinic and the Prince of Wales Hospital, Cardiff, or Woolaston House, Newport, to which patients are often sent by the Royal Infirmary and the Royal Gwent Hospital respectively. Medical Aid Societies such as those at Blaenavon, Tredegar, Ebbw Vale and Llanelly are in effect simple contributory schemes organised in support of local hospitals, the main difference being that medical attendance, ambulance services etc., are included in the benefits offered to contributors. Miners contribute through their employers towards the maintenance of hospitals in their own localities, but there is no uniform system covering the industry as a whole and the contributions vary from 2d to 6d per week /Schemes
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