Health, NHS and Welfare

Beveridge Report, 1942

founding of the NHS - comprehensive, universal, contributory, non-means tested, compulsory

Klein, 2013

NHS born out of a working class society emerging from war

rations = presentation of equality

NHS changes reflective of political, social and economic changes

Attlee,

when questioned about can the country afford it said that if saying no does this mean that for everything that the country produces it is unable to care for its people during all stages and events in their lives?

British Social Attitudes Survey, 2024

52% of population are very or quite dissatisfied with the nHS

Roberts et al., 2012

27% of public service spending in 2010 on the health system

Crawford and Emerson, 2012

0.1% increase in funding ‘relatively generous’ compared to 2.9% cuts (real terms) for other services

Darzi, 2024

NHS cancelled or postponed more routine care in the pandemic than any other comparable health system

geographical variations in number of patients per GP (spatial lottery again)

Stuckler and Basu, 2014

good health starts at home - social environment

(speaks to deprivation at home)

economic policies are the fundamental causes of poor health

Mackenbach, 2009

health and disease reflective of success and failure of society

improve health by changing society by political action

Virchow, 1848

politics is medicine on the national scale