Report of the Royal Commission on National Health Insurance

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Identifikator:: 1740277147

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-132094

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report of the Royal Commission on National Health Insurance

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stationery Office

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: XII, 394 S.

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter I. Introduction

Collection:: Economics Books

MAJORITY REPORT. at each meeting should be issued to the Press immediately after the meeting, and further we arranged that verbatim reports of the evidence given before us at each meeting should be published and placed on sale within two weeks of the date of the meeting. 2. We are glad to be able to record that the procedure so adopted fulfilled admirably the purposes for which it was designed and that the weekly report of our proceedings enjoyed throughout a considerable and a steady sale, which reached a weekly average of over 600 copies. At the same time notices were inserted in the public Press inviting any bodies or persons who desired to make representations on matters falling within the scope of our inquiry to apply to submit evidence before us. All who were so desirous of presenting evidence were required, in the first place, to submit written statements summarising the evidence which they desired to give. We received in all 143 such statements. Of these 130 are printed in full in the Appendix to our Minutes of Hvidence, where there will also be found summaries of the remaining 13. Hach of these statements was first considered by us with a view to our deciding whether it was necessary or desirable that we should hear oral evidence in amplification of the statement submitted. Of the 143 statements 107 were made the subject of oral examination of witnesses, who numbered 195, and to whom we addressed 24,815 questions. Lists of the witnesses examined and the bodies which they repre- sented are prefixed to the volumes of the Minutes of Evidence in which their examination appears, and are also given in Appendix B to our Report. We held 45 sittings for the purposes of oral examination, including two sittings held in Edinburgh for the convenience of Scottish witnesses, and on all but three of these occasions we took evidence both in the morning and the after- noon. We also held several meetings for the discussion of the evidence we had received and for the formulation of our recommendations. 3. During the course of our proceedings we were deprived of the assistance of one of our members, Mr. Fred Bramley, who, after being able to attend only a few of our meetings, was compelled on account of ill-health to resign from the Commission on the 11th March, 1925. It was with great regret that we learned of his death some seven months later TypPES oF EVIDENCE. 4. The witnesses from whom oral evidence was heard, in addition to representatives of the five Government Departments concerned, namely, the Ministry of Health, the Scottish Board of Health, the Ministry of Labour, the National Insurance Audit Department and the Government Actuary’s Department, included representatives of the Approved Societies and Insurance

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