03735nam 2200769 a 450 991079194860332120230828231925.01-78170-142-31-84779-216-210.7765/9781847792167(CKB)2560000000085770(EBL)1069494(OCoLC)818847176(SSID)ssj0000712813(PQKBManifestationID)12315624(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000712813(PQKBWorkID)10644925(PQKB)11741929(StDuBDS)EDZ0000085828(MiAaPQ)EBC1069494(OCoLC)989820667(MdBmJHUP)muse78054(Au-PeEL)EBL1069494(CaPaEBR)ebr10623279(DE-B1597)659498(DE-B1597)9781847792167(EXLCZ)99256000000008577020121203d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMutualism and health care[electronic resource] British hospital contributory schemes in the twentieth century /Martin Gorsky and John Mohan, with Tim WillisManchester Manchester University Press20061 online resource (256 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7190-6578-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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 ServiceChapter 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; AbbreviationsMutualism 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 hospitalNational health servicesGreat BritainMutualismacute hospital services.free hospital care.health care governance.health cash plans.hospital contributory schemes.hospital funding.mass contribution.mutualism.post-war NHS.voluntary hospitals.National health servicesMutualism.362.1109410904Gorsky Martin1193450Mohan John251323Willis Tim1584360MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791948603321Mutualism and health care3868082UNINA