Book 2017
Payment and Philanthropy in British Healthcare, 1918-48
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017
- Medical care, great britain
- Health Care Costs
- Social Medicine
- History
- Hospitals
- Prospective payment
This title examines how commercial medicine operated before the foundation of the NHS, and how this could be compatible with a system based on charity. It challenges the assumptions of historians, politicians, and the public.