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Towards a more cooperative society:
— ideas on the future of the British Labour movement and independent healthcare | | Author(s) | Stephen Pollard, Terry Liddle, Bill Thompson |
| Corporate Author | Independent Healthcare Association - IHA |
| Publisher | Independent Healthcare Association, London, 1994 |
| Pages | 24 pp |
| Source | Independent Healthcare Association, 22 Little Russell Street, London WC1A 2HT. |
| Keywords | Health services ; Services ; Private health services ; Labour ; Coordination ; Social policy ; Trade Unions. |
| Annotation | Although many people in Britain generally perceive the independent healthcare sector to be aligned - in political terms - with the Conservative Party, the sector may owe more of its development to the Labour movement and its forebears than any other modern political party. This paper discusses the problems facing the modern welfare state and the problems its decline poses for modern Socialists in general. It presents a brief history of traditional self-help responses to health and welfare needs, particularly the role of co-operative and friendly society movements in the nineteenth century. It concludes with a discussion of the benefits to be derived from the acceptance of an enhanced independent healthcare sector in the UK. The authors argue that trade unions, amongst others, should become a medium through which effective healthcare and welfare services should be provided for millions of people. |
| Accession Number | CPA-980127212 B |
| Classmark | L: I: LH: VL3: QAJ: TM2: WMA |
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