4 Flashcards
1945 labour seats
393 seats
Why not conservatives?
associated with the depression and appeasement
election campaign differences
con = churchill lab = welfare state
Beverage report five giant evils
Squalor, Ignorance, Want, Idleness and Disease
NHS act, National Insurance act etc accepted in year
1946
appointed day (acts/ welfare state came into operation) year
5 July 1938
National Insurance Act people and cost
everyone except married women, pay 25p a week
National insurance act gave:
every benefit in the welfare state (unemployment pay, state pension, child benefit
NHS proposals by Bevan
hospitals taken over by 13 regional health boards controlled by Ministry of Health
BMA opposition
51,000 GPs and hospital doctors threatened to boycott
Bevans Compromises
Consultants worked part-item for the NHS and use private hospital beds
Opposition delayed NHS until ___
July 1948
Bevan won over BMA
salary + fees per patient + keep their private patients
NHS gave people:
free dental, medical, optician etc
Cost over prediction 1948-49
over £75m