Williamson, C (2015) 'The quiet time? Pay-beds and private practice in the National Health Service: 1948–1970.' Social History of Medicine, 28 (3). pp. 576-595. ISSN 1477-4666
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Abstract
The study of the history of private practice in the NHS has generally been focused on either the introduction or the abolition of pay-beds. This article looks at the period characterised as the ‘Quiet Time’ when a political consensus seemingly emerged to retain some form of private provision within the service. This piece argues that rather than ‘a quiet time’ it was a period of intense activity and controversy as to the place and contribution of pay-beds when there were multiple attempts to rationalise and to make them cost effective. This article is an original study of a much-neglected subject in public policy history.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
| Divisions: | School of Writing, Publishing and the Humanities |
| UoA: | History |
| Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkv024 |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Jun 2015 12:12 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Aug 2021 09:40 |
| URI / Page ID: | https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/6004 |
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