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The State of the Nation: The Political Legacy of Aneurin Bevan (Victor Gollancz, 1997). Goodman, N. Wilson Jameson: Architect of National Health (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1970). Gorsky, Martin. "The British National Health Service 1948–2008: A Review of the Historiography," Social History of Medicine, Dec 2008, Vol. 21 Issue 3, pp 437–460
In 2015, the UK had 2.6 hospital beds per 1,000 people. [100] In September 2017, the King's Fund documented the number of NHS hospital beds in England as 142,000, describing this as less than 50% of the number 30 years previously. [101] In 2019, one tenth of the beds in the UK were occupied by a patient who was alcohol-dependent. [102]
As part of the 2018 funding increase the UK Government asked the NHS in England to produce a 10-year plan as to how this funding would be used. [33] In June 2018 the Institute for Fiscal Studies stated that a 5% real-terms increase was needed. Paul Johnson of the IFS said the 3.4% was greater than recent increases, but less than the long-term ...
The NHS was established within the differing nations of the United Kingdom through differing legislation, and as such there has never been a singular British healthcare system, instead there are 4 health services in the United Kingdom; NHS England, the NHS Scotland, HSC Northern Ireland and NHS Wales, which were run by the respective UK government ministries for each home nation before falling ...
The history of hospitals began in antiquity with hospitals in Greece, the Roman Empire and on the Indian subcontinent as well, starting with precursors in the Asclepian temples in ancient Greece and then the military hospitals in ancient Rome. The Greek temples were dedicated to the sick and infirm but did not look anything like modern hospitals.
The reality is the vision of a full-blown hospital at the site was scrapped 15 months ago. ... close to 50% Chandler hospital discharges are transfers from other hospitals across the state. In the ...
Health, Civilization and the State: A History of Public Health from Ancient to Modern Times (1998), good coverage of the British record in ch. 8-9. Rosen, George A History of Public Health (1958). online, a standard scholarly history. Sheppard, Francis. London 1808-1870: The infernal wen (1971, reprint 2022) online, see pp 247–296.. Siena, Kevin.
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