Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. The emergence of hospital contributory schemes
3. Mass contribution and hospital finance in inter-war Britain
4. The geography of hospital contributory schemes: membership, reciprocity and integration
5. Hospital contribution and civil society: humanity not democracy?
6. Contributory schemes, workmen governors and local control of hospital policy
7. The 'impending cataclysm': the state and hospital contribution, 1941-1946
8. The contributory schemes and the coming of the NHS
9. ‘Where the shoe pinches’: reorientation under the NHS
10. The health cash plans and the new mutualism in health care
11. Concluding comments

About the Author

Martin Gorsky is Senior Lecturer in the Contemporary History of Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. John Mohan is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Southampton. Tim Willis is a Research Officer in the Department for Work and Pensions