ABSTRACT
The development of the National Health Service, as we saw in Chapter 8, removed the delivery of health care in Britain from any direct involvement with the profit motive. Even those physicians and surgeons who had been unconvinced about the NHS quickly came to appreciate the advantages of being able to treat the condition presented with the best available mode rather than having to consider who the patient was and what treatment they might be able to afford. They appreciated, also, the advantages of state capital to back expensive establishments such as hospitals and their equipment.
