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primary topic: Mutualism and health care: hospital contributory schemes in twentieth-century Britain

Mutualism and health care: hospital contributory schemes in twentieth-century Britain
type: Book
type: Article
abstract: Mutualism 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 services, and broadening opportunities for participation in the governance of health care and for the expression of consumer views. The book then explores why the option of funding the post-war NHS through mass contribution was rejected, and traces the transformation of the surviving schemes into health cash plans. This is a substantial investigation into the attractions and limitations of mutualism in health care. It is highly relevant to debates about organisational innovations in the delivery of welfare services
date: 2006-07
isbn: 071906578X
status: nonPeerReviewed
status: published
author list: authors
type: EPrint
type: BookEPrint
is part of: repository

Manchester University Press
type: Organization

Tim Willis
type: Person
given name: Tim
family name: Willis

Martin Gorsky
type: Person
given name: Martin
family name: Gorsky

John Mohan
type: Person
given name: John
family name: Mohan

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