Title Mutualism and health care : Hospital contributory schemes in twentieth-century Britain

Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (256 pages) Contents Introduction; Chapter 2; Chapter 1; The emergence of hospital contributory schemes; Chapter 3; Mass contribution and hospital finance in inter-war Britain; Chapter 4; The geography of hospital contributory schemes: membership, reciprocity and integration; Chapter 5; Hospital contribution and civil society: humanity not democracy?; Chapter 6; Contributory schemes, working-class governors and local control of hospital policy; Chapter 7; The 'impending cataclysm': the state and hospital contribution, 1941-46; Chapter 8; The contributory schemes and the coming of the National Health Service Chapter 9'Where the shoe pinches': reorientation under the National Health Service; Chapter 10; The health cash plans and the new mutualism in health care; Chapter 11; Concluding comments; Index; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations Summary Mutualism and health care presents the first comprehensive account of a major innovation in hospital funding before the NHS. The voluntary hospitals, which provided the bulk of Britain?s acute hospital services, diversified their financial base by establishing hospital contributory schemes. Through these, working people subscribed small, regular amounts to their local hospitals, in return for which they were eligible for free hospital care. Mutualism and health care evaluates the extent to which the schemes were successful in achieving comprehensive coverage of the population, funding hospital Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject National health services -- Great Britain. Mutualism. Hospitals -- Administration. Hospitals -- Business management. Health services administration. Economics. Organization. Health facilities. History. Medical care. Humanities. Hospital Administration Financial Management Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation Patient Care Management History, Modern 1601- Economics Health Care Economics and Organizations Organization and Administration Health Facilities Health Services Administration History Delivery of Health Care Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services Humanities Economics, Hospital Financial Management, Hospital Financial Support History, 20th Century Patient Care Management -- methods History, Early Modern 1451-1600 Patient Care economics. health facilities. history (discipline) humanities. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Comparative Politics. Organization Medical care Humanities Hospitals -- Business management Hospitals -- Administration History Health services administration Health facilities Economics Mutualism National health services Great Britain Form Electronic book Author Mohan, John Willis, Tim ISBN 9781847792167 1847792162

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