The King's Fund was asked by the Voluntary Hospitals Committee for London to consider the need for further provision for the middle classes for insurance against hospital expenses and the associated specialist fees. The Committee needed to formulate a scheme which, while meeting the needs of the middle class for ...
The Workmen's Compensation Acts in this country do not make any provision for the expenses of medical or surgical treatment. The injured workman receives only part of his previous wage and cannot himself contribute to those expenses. As the National Health Insurance Acts provide only for the services of general ...
The object of this time-table is to provide information which will help to prevent the waiting, with possible resulting hardship, which occurs when patients attend hospital out-patient departments at the wrong hour or even the wrong day.
The object of this time-table is to provide information which will help to prevent the waiting, with possible resulting hardship, which occurs when patients attend hospital out-patient departments at the wrong hour or even the wrong day.
Part one of this report looks at ways in which hospitals could reduce outpatient waiting times by shortening the interval between the time when patients arrive and the time when they see the doctor. Part two deals in detail with the registration of outpatients.