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 XII. Consideration of certain major problems

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14.8 MAJORITY REPORT. entitled to free attendance by a doctor or certified mid- wife. No mistake of the medical adviser in estimating the date of confinement shall preclude a woman from receiving these benefits from the date of the medical certificate up to the date on which the confinement actually takes place. ““ (dy Shall in any case, if she is nursing her child, be allowed half an hour twice a day during her working hours for this purpose.’ 333. The witnesses urged that this Convention should serve as a model in considering the provision to be made for maternity in this country. We would point out, however, that the Con- vention is confined to women who are themselves engaged in industrial or commercial employment, while under the Health Insurance Scheme we have to consider not only these women but also those in domestic employment, and the vastly greater number of women who are not themselves employed but are the wives of insured men. As we shall show, our problem is an essentially different one from that which was before the framers of the Washington Convention. CHARACTER OF MATERNITY BENEFIT. 334. Both the Washington Convention and the Maternity and Child Welfare Schemes suggest to us that maternity benefit must in the present state of thought be considered in close con- nexion with the wider question of the provision to be made for women immediately before, during, and immediately after child- birth. It is not so much the money payment that is of importance as the question of taking steps to secure that every woman receives proper attention from doctor or midwife in suit- able surroundings during a reasonable period centred on the con- finement. In other words the character of the benefit should change from * cash’’ to *‘ health’ and it should be linked up with the other related health services. This is not to say that there should be no cash payment at the time of confinement. Such a payment is undoubtedly of value and will be utilised wisely by most mothers; but other elements must. we think, eventually be introduced. 335. The existence side by side of the maternity benefit under the Insurance Scheme, the arrangements made under the Maternity and Child Welfare Schemes, and the provision under the Poor Taw illustrates the variety which characterises the existing National Health arrangements to which we have adverted elsewhere. In this instance we have three inde- pendent authorties administering in the same area schemes governed by different social and financial principles, but all attempting to solve the same problem—the assistance of the

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