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“Open the Other Eye”: payment, civic duty and hospital contributory schemes in Bristol, c. 1927–1948
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Gosling, George Campbell (2010) “Open the Other Eye”: payment, civic duty and hospital contributory schemes in Bristol, c. 1927–1948. Medical History, Volume 54 (Number 4). pp. 475-494. doi:10.1017/S0025727300006372
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300006372
Abstract
On the appointed day of 5 July 1948, the National Health Service (NHS) came into existence in Britain. What existed before had been a complex and constantly evolving mixed economy of healthcare, within which hospital services were provided by a combination of public and voluntary sectors. The public sector accounted for the majority of hospital beds and dominated treatment of the chronic and aged sick. However, it is the voluntary hospitals that have often been seen as at the heart of this system because of their historic foundations—many having been established as charitable institutions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—as well as their perceived clinical superiority.1 In fact, the move towards a national health service, which ultimately nationalized the hospitals, gave great credence to an approach Daniel Fox has described as “hierarchical regionalism”. This placed such institutions as leading specialist and teaching centres at the top of a hierarchy of regional service providers, and in doing so reinforced this view of the primacy of the voluntary hospitals.2
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Medical History | ||||||
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0025-7273 | ||||||
| Official Date: | October 2010 | ||||||
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| Volume: | Volume 54 | ||||||
| Number: | Number 4 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 475-494 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0025727300006372 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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