Mutualism and Health Care: Hospital Contributory Schemes in Twentieth-Century Britain

by Tim Willis, Martin Gorsky, John Mohan

Book Overview

Mutualism and health care, newly available in paperback, presents the first comprehensive account of a major innovation in hospital funding before the NHS. The voluntary hospitals, which provided the bulk of Britain's acute hospital services, diversified their financial base by establishing hospital contributory schemes. Through these, working people subscribed small, regular amounts to their local hospitals, in return for which they were eligible...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719065798
• ISBN13: 9780719065798
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"