WELFARE STATE AND NHS

Development of the Welfare State and NHS in Britain

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Development of the Welfare State and NHS in Britain

Introduction

Careful management and efficient medical services required to ensure the quality of health being provided to individual patients. There has to be a relationship established between common people and professional healthcare system, in order to perform core functions of customary practices. From the commencement of this function, there has been an enormous instructional development in the past few decades. It is imperative that educational development flourishes when the quality of the healthcare system is carved into laws and healthcare policies. The impact of this enrichment in the healthcare system ensures valuable health benefits to the general public of a country. This was the case in the United Kingdom. The history of Britain medical and customary practices appeals particularly to Dutch, on the establishment of National Health Services in 1948 and the Dutch law for medical funning a few years earlier (Finlayson, 1994, p 3). These initiatives acts as a trademark of modern general practice and revolutionize the social engineering framework.

Anne Digby in her book The Evolution of British General Practice 1850-1948 corrects this traditional concept, based on the thorough analysis of British general practices it the past 100 years before the establishment of the NHS. The highlighted period covers the introduction of the Medical Act. This act initiates the development of dignified qualifications of the medical profession and establishes the concept of healthcare insurance. Both of these concepts, challenges and threats the practitioners of that time. General practices presented as a basis for financial and economic aspects, and the clinical information, considered in various documents, forms the basis of this analysis. In this paper, we will discuss the noticeable events in the history of United Kingdom. These events have an enormous impact on the social conditions of Victorian England which shapes the development of social policy from 1850 to 1948. After 1948, and the declaration of World War II, there has been a revolutionary change in the social welfare and health policy of England. We will discuss such events in the paper which leads to the establishment of National Health Service. Evaluate the changes in the welfare and NHS from 1948 to 1991. Our consideration in the paper will also include current situations and issues in NHS and the development of the welfare state.

United Kingdom Social Policy from 1850 to 1948

During the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century, industrialization is growing massively on any part of the planet. It spreads first in northwestern Europe and America, Japan and Russia. Apart from the case of USSR the 1917 revolution, industrialization carried out according to the rules of capitalism with intensity uneven across countries (Finlayson, 1994, p 3). Thus, determining changes more or less profound and rapid social structures and modes of life.

A century of industrial development

In the late eighteenth century, industrial revolution was first countered in England. The new framework is the ...