LEADER 03296nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910465647203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-78170-142-3 010 $a1-84779-216-2 035 $a(CKB)2560000000085770 035 $a(EBL)1069494 035 $a(OCoLC)818847176 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000712813 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12315624 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000712813 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10644925 035 $a(PQKB)11741929 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000085828 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1069494 035 $a(OCoLC)989820667 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse78054 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1069494 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10623279 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000085770 100 $a20121203d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMutualism and health care$b[electronic resource] $eBritish hospital contributory schemes in the twentieth century /$fMartin Gorsky and John Mohan, with Tim Willis 210 $aManchester $cManchester University Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (256 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7190-6578-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction; 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 327 $aChapter 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 330 $aMutualism 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 606 $aNational health services$zGreat Britain 606 $aMutualism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aNational health services 615 0$aMutualism. 676 $a362.1109410904 700 $aGorsky$b Martin$01045292 701 $aMohan$b John$0251323 701 $aWillis$b Tim$01045293 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465647203321 996 $aMutualism and health care$92471476 997 $aUNINA