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Healthcare (1945-79) - Coggle Diagram
Healthcare (1945-79)
Impact of NHS
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Arthritis continued to be the largest health problem affecting 200,000 men and 700,000 women
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There was a 90% drop in cases of whooping cough by 1970 and syphilis was almost eradicated by the early 1990s
In the first 10 years, a new antibiotic drug was developed which caused the number of deaths of tuberculosis to fall from 25,000 a year to 5,000
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Creation of NHS
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Feb 1948 - 90% of the BMA voted against working within the NHS as it undermined their clinical independence
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Expense of NHS
Division of healthcare between GPs and public health authority made the cost-effective coordination of healthcare difficult to achieve
Number of staff increased - doubled from 5000,000 to 1m between 1948 -79
Higher public expenditures and demand for healthcare - people took up valuable time and resources with complaints of things like dandruff
1948 there was 1 antibiotic, by 1968 there were 3
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