NHS

What did The Local Government Act 1929 do?

This law transferred the responsibility for public health and sanitation from the poor law authorities to the local government

What did the The Medical Research Council Act 1930?

This law established the Medical Research Council which was responsible for funding and conducting medical research in the UK.

What did The Mental Treatment Act 1930 do?

This law created reforms to the provision of mental healthcare including the establishment of mental hospitals and the introduction of voluntary admission to psychiatric facilities.

What is The Public Health Act 1936?

Is the establishment of local health authorities responsible for controlling infectious diseases, regulating food and water supplies, and improving sanitation.

What is The National Health Service Act 1946?

It is the establishment of the National Health Service (NHS) which provided universal healthcare that is free at the point of use as it is funded through taxations.

Who would be overcrowding state hospitals?

old people and people with chronic illness

What did the The National Health Service (Amendment) Act 1949 do?

This law made several changes to the structure and funding of the NHS. Including the introduction of prescription charges for certain medication.

What did The Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 do?

Established the framework of the reorganisation of the NHS, including the establishment of health authorities.

What did The National Health Service (Amendment) Act 1972 do?

The law introduced new arrangements for funding and management of the NHS.

Who was the voluntary hospitals forced to ignore?

the elderly and people with long-term illnesses

What where the 2 types of hospitals that there where before the NHS?

Voluntary and State hospitals

How many excellent teaching voluntary hospitals where there in London and how where they funded?

There where 12 paid by donations

How many excellent teaching voluntary hospitals where their outside of London and what is the name of one?

There was 10 one being Guy's

Apart from the excellent teaching voluntary hospitals how many struggling voluntary hospitals where there in the UK?

1,100

State hospitals where turned into real hospitals in the 1929 local government act what where they before?

They used to be workhouse hospitals

In preparation for was what did the National Government create near to big hospitals in 938?

Blood banks

What was the Emergency Medical Service which was created in 1939?

Designed to treat soldiers and civilians injured in the war.

What was the impact of a massive increase in funding as an impact of WW2?

The number of beds and trained doctors increased. They also began to specialise in new areas such as plastic surgery

Who was the Minster of Health in Atlee's government and is responsible for the creation of the NHS?

Nye Bevan

In February 1948 what % of doctors voted against joining the NHS?

90%

In July 1948 what % of doctors joined the NHS just 1 month before it was supposed to start?

90%

How did Bevan get the doctors to join the NHS?

By giving doctors money for every patient they took and by allowing them to continue to have private patients

With the introduction of new antibiotics how much did the deaths from TB reduce to? (put what it was then what it reduced to)

25,000 a year to 5,000

What was the reduction in th3e number of children during in child birth? (1949 and 1979)

1/1000 in 1949 to 0.18/1000 in 1970

How much did life expectancy increase for men? 1950 - 1979

66 for men in 1950 to 70 in 1979

How much did life expectancy increase for women? 1950 - 1979

71 in 1950 to 75 in 1979

Why did life expectancy increase so much?

due to poor people getting proper medical treatment for the first time?

What % of GDP did the NHS cost in 1950?

4.1% of GDP

What % of GDP did the NHS cost in 1990?

14% of GDP

How many antibiotics was there in 1948?

1

How many antibiotics where there in 1968?

33

What was "Dandruff syndrome"?

When people became dependent of the NHS and used it for trivial problems

How many NHS staff where there in 1948?

500,000

How many NHS staff where there in 1979?

Over 1 million

When and where was the first ever kidney transplant?

Edinburgh in 1960

What % of the NHS budget was spent of Kidney failure in 1990?

3%

When was the contraceptive pill introduced on the NHS?

1961, it was only for married women until 1967

How many people where using the contraceptive pill by 1969?

Over 1 million

There was technological changes such as CT scans which started being used in the 1960s. How much where these?

Over £50K