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This 9 page paper examines the ways in which social healthcare policies has changed, the paper starts by examining the 19th century and follows the developments in policies and provision to the twenty-first. This includes looking at the social attitudes, legal measures and the public feelings. The paper induces the 1848 Act, c the development of the National Health Service (NHS) and the changes with introduction of Primary Healthcare Trusts (PCT's). The bibliography cites 10 sources.
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File: TS14_TEsochealth.rtf
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todays UK society the culture is one of free healthcare for all, the need to gain value and the arguments over what is an is not affordable with concerns over
the accountability of how public funds are spent. However, even if we only go back a century the position was very different. Social health policies have been influences by a
large number of factors, and 100 years ago good healthcare was seen as a privilege and not a right. In the past many areas of health policy have been driven
not by concern but by fear pr the desire to control disease and populations. In the 19th century there were increasing widespread
concern for the health of those who could not afford doctors and the social attitude was changing. There were preventative measures and hospitals for the poor, but these were mostly
provided by charities or the church. The most measurable aspect of health care may be seen as the provision under the Poor Acts which originated in the sixteenth century. This
was not medical care in itself, but financial provision for those unable to look after themselves, and in reality was the origins of the welfare state. Poor relief, as granted
under the poor laws, was available only to those who could nit provide for themselves and had no family to provide for them, in many cases this would be due
to ill health. The Poor Laws although amended many times remained in force, generally unchanged. By the 19th century they were sub-divided into three main
categories; in-door relief, out-door relief and medical relief(Booth, 1899). The first was a cross between a workhouse and an old peoples home where those receiving the benefit of it were
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