The Establishment Of The Beverage Commission (1948)

In January 1948 when the Health Secretary Aneurin Bevan proposed the establishment of the Nation Health Service most politicians and professionals felt he was not serious as they felt it was politically possible and will put a strain and the current social welfare system. Professionals in the medical field also felt it will impact on their status as professionals working under the government umbrella, the doctors also felt the will lose money and their freedom will be threatened when NHS is introduced, however in June 1948 the NHS commissioned and it came into been. The NHS was welcome by mostly people in the middle and lower level in the country as they were the people who could not afford the health services that were around before the introduction
of the NHS (Leathard, 2001).
Before the establishment of the NHS, the British parliament in 1601 passed The Poor Law Act of 1601 which was a national system the ensured that localized levy’s where and part of it used in establishing poorhouses with infirmaries for the old, ill and poor within the communities. This system was expensive and difficult the run and manage.
This led to an amendment to the law in 1834. The Poor Law Amendment act of 1834 was to address the inequities and the approaches to health and social care within England (Linsley, 2011). In 1941 the Beverage commission was setup to look at the rebuilding of England after the Second World War and how to address issues such as illness, diseases, ignorance and social insurance related issues. The Beverage report was published in 1942 in which it recommended the establishment of the NHS, National Insurance, family assistance allowance, compulsory contribution that will ensure health delivery is free at the point of delivery, council house provision, free education for all and a bureaucratic system of government department to administer and manage the proposed institutions. The Beverage report formed the biases for the establishment of a modern welfare state (Covington, 2008). This report and the experience gained from the Poor Law act formed the road map upon on which the labour formulated and proposed the formation of the NHS. After the commissioning of the NHS in June 1948 it
was immediately saddled with challenges as its resources was fare stretched than it expected, the success is the NHS was so rapped that there where immediate complaints to do with the level of care been provided and medical professionals and resources available. Independent and state commissions published reports on areas which where been neglected or proper attention was not been given to. One such report was the Guillebaud Committee (1956) that reported that maternity services and the elderly where not been taking care of properly. There was also in 1962 the publication of the Porritt Report the proposed the unification of most of the individual NHS under one Area Health Board. There was the Seebohm committee (1965) that was to review the personal social services within the NHS.
The Ministry of Health (1968) announced its very first proposed restructuring of the NHS in its First Green Paper, which had incorporated some of the recommendations from earlier reports namely, unification of the NHS under groups of 40 and 50 Area Health Boards and decentralizing the administration to local boards to manage and run the NHS (Carrier and Kendall, 1998).
In 1977 a committee chaired by Sir Douglas Back form to look at the trends within the NHS, it reported that there was a decline in the mortality rate of people in the higher social-class level but none on the for people in the lower level. The report concluded that health care didn’t overcome social and economic differences (Budrys, 2009). In Health Service Act (1990) was introduced to move community care from health authority to local social service authority, this lead to a more localized care (Glover-Thomas, 2002). There was also the Health Act of (1999). In line with the government vision of decentralizing the Health Service the Health and Social Act (2012). This act proposes the formation of commissions and boards to manage the funds and administration of NHS service locally and introduce private sector participation in the provision of health (BBC
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With the introduction of all there acts and its implication to health delivery there is a need for professionals to be diligent in the delivery of health. This brings into the forefront the 6C’s when care is been delivered. There is the need for people to show care to people they provide service to and to show compassion during the process of their work. There is the need to show high level of competence to make patient confident that they are been attended to by the best and to communicate clearly in all that we do. We have to show courage and commitment to how work and be reliable as this will help the NHS in delivering the high quality care it was setup and known for.

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