National Health Service

Task 21. What do you know about the following things: Welfare state*, New Jerusalem?

Task 22. Who are the following people: W illiam Beveridge, civil servants, GPs, Ernest Bevin?

Task 23. Answer the following questions:

1. Describe the main features of the medical service in Britain in the first half of the 20^th c.

2. Who suggested the introduction of the NHS* and what were the main points of the project?

3. What was the initial reaction of British doctors to the introduction of the NHS? How did it change eventually?

4. What were the main consequences of the introduction of the NHS in the UK?