Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Reihe: Routledge Revivals
The Creation of the National Health Service
Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Reihe: Routledge Revivals
ISBN: 978-1-041-45419-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
First published in 1989, Health, Happiness, and Security is a definitive account of the process by which the NHS was created. It is widely believed that the medical profession opposed the creation of the NHS and that only the combined wills of the Aneurin Bevan and Lord Beveridge forced it through. Honigsbaum shows that it was partly the Civil Service who stood in the way, wanting a system of health care based on local planning and control. Had civil servants been more flexible, the NHS might have evolved more peacefully than it did.
Ministers of course made the ultimate decisions, but the book shows how they were influenced by the staff who serviced them. It also describes for the first time how the consultant service evolved, revealing the enormous influence exerted by Lord Moran, then President of the Royal College of Physicians.
An historian with an intimate knowledge of NHS problems at the time, Frank Honigsbaum has provided an invaluable resource for anyone wanting to examine the history of a major British institution. Historians, politicians, civil servants, doctors, students of social policy, political science, and public administration will find the book an essential reading.
Zielgruppe
Postgraduate
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
Weitere Infos & Material
Introduction Part 1: Prelude to Planning, 1911 to 1936 1. Failure of reform 2. Ministry rejects takeover of voluntary hospitals 3. Ministry intent to create a hospital service Part 2: GP Service 4. A salaried service under municipal control 5. Doctors reject municipal control 6. Resistance to compromise 7. Doctors reject White Paper 8. Retreat to the panel system 9. Bevan the pragmatist Part 3: Moran’s Consultant Service 10. Moran organizes consultants 11. Who is a consultant? Who should decide? 12. The struggle for regional control 13. Bevan’s concessions – more to consultants or GPs? Part 4: National Hospital Service 14. No charge for hospital care 15. Deadlock in negotiations 16. The hospitals are nationalized Part 5: Free and Complete Care for All 17. Financial constraints 18. Beveridge pressure 19. NHS costs 20. Medical movement towards universal coverage Part 6: Assessment 21. Civil servants and doctors: their influence compared Appendix: The crisis in NHS negotiations, April 1948
