The Health Services White Paper : The Labour Party's policy
1944-09 1944 1940s 22 pages - 21 - VII. FINANCE In the White Paper, it is estimated that in England and Wales the cost of the National Health Service will be £132 millions a year (and £16 millions a year in Scotland). This will be disbursed as follows:- New joint authorities:...
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- 21 - VII. FINANCE In the White Paper, it is estimated that in England and Wales the cost of the National Health Service will be £132 millions a year (and £16 millions a year in Scotland). This will be disbursed as follows:- New joint authorities: £70 millions on hospital, consultant and other services. Treasury to voluntary hospitals direct: £10 millions County and county borough councils: £22 millions on clinics, health centres, M.O.H.s etc. Central Medical Board: £30 millions on new general practitioner service, including payments to chemists. Apart from its direct expenditure on the general practitioner service, the State will give the following grants:- £100 per annum per general hospital bed to joint authorities and voluntary hospitals. £35 per annum per bed in mental and infectious diseases hospitals to joint authorities; this smaller sum is because of the lower costs, and because local authorities already provide this service. 50% grant for every new service, other than the hospital and consultant service, to the responsible authority. Joint authorities will meet the balance of their expenditure by precept on their constituent authorities. But the State will also give a 50% grant of the increase in the total cost of the health services in any one year, over a standard year; this grant will be adjusted to give more help to poor areas, and less to rich. The money will be raised in approximately the following way:- Social security insurance scheme: £36 millions Taxpayer: £48 millions Ratepayer: £48 millions The detailed proposals for Scotland do not differ substantially from those for England and Wales. It is worth noting that the cost of the health services to the ratepayer in 1938-39 (ignoring block grants) was approximately £40 millions, so that the addition to the rates will be about £8 millions under the White Paper proposals.
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