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The Development of the London Hospital System,
1823 - 1982
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The Development of the London Hospital System, 1823 - 1982 |
| The Development of the London Hospital System, 1823 -1982 and a further chapter since then CONTENTS | |
| The shaping of London’s hospital system | |
| The voluntary hospitals | The voluntaries, great and small; their origins and objectives |
| Hospitals and medical schools | The relationship of the voluntary hospitals and the medical schools |
| The development of poor law infirmaries | Health care for the indigent - the paupers. Scandals and upgrading |
| Smallpox and fever hospitals | The development of a system purely for the infectious diseases |
| Defining problems and debating solutions, 1860—1889 | Debates on how hospitals in London should be organised, and the emergence of skilled nursing |
| Reviewing the past and shaping the future, 1889—1914 | London County Council, and the King's Fund |
| Developments in the hospital services between the world wars | An unstable system, its financial and organisational problems |
| Regions and districts | The concept of the region and the district - where they came from, and how they were integrated into the NHS |
| The Emergency Medical Service and planning during the war | The effect of wartime organisation (the Emergency Medical Service), on the hospitals and the NHS that followed |
| Bevan and the National Health Service, 1945—1948 | Bevan's plan, and the build up to the NHS |
| Hospital development, 1947—1968 | The early days of the NHS, and the effect on London's hospitals |
| Rationalisation and reorganisation 1968-1974 | The effect of the political decision to reorganise the NHS in 1974 |
| Strategy and stringency 1974-1982 | Resource reallocation and the hospitals; the 1982 restructuring |
| From Districts to Trusts - 1982-2008 | Griffiths, the Conservative and Labour NHS reforms. The NHS Plan and changes in the pattern of administration in London. University decisions and the restructuring of London's medical schools and hospitals. |
| Overview | This chapter has been substantially rewritten in the light of subsequent events |
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