Monday 4 July 2016

If Beveridge were alive today he might introduce NHS charges

If Beveridge were alive today he might introduce NHS charges It might be heresy to say it, but he might find the problems within health and social care all too difficult

It is nearly 75 years since Sir William Beveridge’s mighty report on Social insurance and allied services, which is widely seen to have founded the modern welfare state and to have played a key part in creating the national health service. The world has changed immensely since then, so what Beveridge would say today can only be a parlour game.

It has, however, to be incredibly short odds that he would look at the current NHS and at England’s social care system and conclude that the two were just not working well together. Continue reading... The Guardian

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