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Question 1

The benefits system

Answer 1

people are helped by direct payments of government money

Question 2

How to get additional income after retirement

Answer 2

contribute to a pension fund (superannuation scheme)

take out a life insurance policy

Question 3

Income support

Answer 3

people not entitled to pension nor money for being unemployed

sometimes paid out if they have a large family or earn very low amount

Question 4

What was the workhouse and for who was it?

Answer 4

hated institution in the 19th century for the old, sick, mentally handicapped and orphans

Question 5

the Beveridge Report

Answer 5

government commisison (1942)

Question 6

NHS

Answer 6

National Health Service

Question 7

“Means test”

Answer 7

investigation into a person’s financial circumstances

Question 8

“Sign on”

Answer 8

declaring yourself unemployed and applying for a “jobseeker’s allowance)

Question 9

“Dole money”

Answer 9

jobseeker’s allowance

Question 10

Number of charities

Answer 10

150,000

Question 11

Well-known charities

Answer 11

The Samaritans

Barnardo’s

The Salvation Army

MENCAP and MIND

Question 12

Medical insurance

Answer 12

organized by the government and compulsory

Question 13

GP

Answer 13

General Practicitioner

Question 14

Problem with the NHS

Answer 14

Medical practitioners have to decide which parent will get the limited resources

Question 15

Biggest private medical scheme

Answer 15

BUPA

Question 16

“Pay bed”

Answer 16

separate room for private patients in NHS hospitals

Question 17

“Nursing homes”

Answer 17

private hospitals and clinics

Question 18

Health tourism

Answer 18

British people going to other countries to get treatment faster and/or more cheaply

Question 19

“Group practice”

Answer 19

Working in the same buildings as several other GPs and sharing facilites

Question 20

Number for emergency help

Answer 20

999

Question 21

Victorian reformer of nursing and hospital facilites

Answer 21

Florence Nightingale