Zusammenfassung der Ressource
B6 U21- How health
and social care
developed in the UK
- The vision of an all
inclusive welfare state
- Before the Welfare State - lack of
basic, accessible health service
- 1930s - unemployment soaring
meaning many people could not
afford medical help
- After the war, no-one wanted
to go back to how things were
- 'Total war' - involving civilians and armed forces
- Coalition government - Winston Churchill
- 1941 - Sir William Beveridge is
appointed to look at social
insurance and social services
- 1942 - Social Insurance and Allied
Services - "Beveridge Report"
- universal scheme covering everyone
- unified and simple - people only had to
pay into one fund to cover every benefit
- Not means tested
- national minimum - basic necessities covered
- 'Flat rate' scheme - everyone pays the same
and if claiming, they claim the same
- The Beveridge Report -
Implications for Care
- Back to the drawing board
- Social Care - the poor relation?
- The new National Health Service