This report makes a number of recommendations about the way in which hospital services are organised. These include the pattern of hospital services in areas or `regions'; and the establishment of a central body to be concerned with civilian medical and ancillary health services of the country.
Recommendations by the Medical Subcommittee to the Joint Committee about the functions and methods of staffing the teaching hospitals and special hospitals are printed in this pamphlet.
The King's Fund was asked by the Voluntary Hospitals Committee for London to consider the need for further provision for the middle classes for insurance against hospital expenses and the associated specialist fees. The Committee needed to formulate a scheme which, while meeting the needs of the middle class for ...
The Workmen's Compensation Acts in this country do not make any provision for the expenses of medical or surgical treatment. The injured workman receives only part of his previous wage and cannot himself contribute to those expenses. As the National Health Insurance Acts provide only for the services of general ...