CADBURY.. FRY & ROWNTREE.. if you are over a certain age, live in Britain or know your English, for they were not Welsh or Scottish, confectionery, then you will recognise these names as being brands of chocolate.
Apart from the chocolate connection, they had another very strong connection, for these families were members of the Society of Friends, this is the 'official' name of the Quakers, they are a Christian movement but not members of the Church of England.. aka C of E.
Way back in the fifteenth century King Henry 8th granted Royal Charters to both Cambridge and Oxford Universities and to the Royal College of Physicians, which is in London.
Fast forward to 19th century and a form of Social Medical Insurance was introduced by Otto von Bismarck, the German Chancellor. By taxation paid by those in employment, the unemployed, those unable to work ~ too young or too old or sick ~ would be given free medical treatment.
This policy became the basis of health care throughout Europe.
Please think, if you will, about how doctors (of what ever speciality) are trained. They are students, then they progress up the medical ladder, they do lots of further training to become consultants or specialists in their chosen field, most of them work between hospitals and a private practise.
In the UK, the NHS (National Health Service) work consultants do in big public hospitals is 'free' to the patient ~ except it isn't. For we, as UK Taxpayers, pay a percentage of our salary into the National Insurance, this cover our medical and dental care costs. The work consultants do outside the NHS is paid by private patients and it costs a pretty penny or two!
Most public hospitals in the UK will have a mixture of both NHS and Private Wards. If you are lucky enough to be treated by some of the UK's top consultants on the NHS, which she has and continues to be, you will receive extremely good medical treatment to which, as she DID pay her 'stamp'.. the nickname for National Insurance Contribution.. for over 30 years, she is fully entitled.
Sadly, she is aware that, to the eternal shame of the medical profession, there are hospitals in the UK whose medical and aftercare of patients is appalling and which do not go by their Hippocratic Oath of 'do no harm'.
But a huge amount of people, known as private patients, also pay into a Private Medical Insurance Scheme. This means they can get treatment faster, there is a waiting list on the National Health for most treatments, they can pretty much pick and choose who (and where) they want the treatment.
They go to direct a Private Doctor, non NH Surgery. It is extremely rare for the cost of these policies NOT to go up with age and, of course, your medical history is usually reflected in the insurance premiums.
Now we go back to the Quakers, because they were not members of the Church of England, they were not permitted to study medicine at either Cambridge or Oxford, neither were Catholics.
As the Quaker movement was 'red hot' on education, their further (university) education had to be obtained elsewhere, so in order to study medicine, they travelled to the Netherlands to the city of Leyden's university: side note: Edinburgh's famous medical school was founded by medical graduates from Leyden.
However, the Quaker doctors who were graduating from the Netherlands and Edinburgh and returning to Britain were not permitted to become members of the Royal College of Physicians, again because of having to be C of E. This meant that Quakers could not work in hospitals in order to specialise and become consultants.
And now comes the bit which is simply wonderful.. for the Quaker doctors started to build local community medical practises and some of the earliest ones were based in the area known as the Dales, in the heart of Yorkshire. They were known General Practises.. because they did not specialise.
So there you have it folks. The tale of how our GP's came into being, the method of payment for the GP's payment was mostly based, in the early days of these surgeries, on how much you could afford to pay.
The National Medical Insurance scheme as we know it today in the UK was introduced in 1911. It has been 'tweaked' now and then by successive Chancellors of the Exchequer.
Now she has to go to the Wimbledon Sewing Machine shop, which is not located in Wimbledon but in Tooting..?.. to purchase 2.5m of bleached calico, blue and yellow fabric paint and an alphabet stencil set with which to do a banner for a 'Singing With Dementia' BBQ being held in the summer.
So farewell from us.. FlapFlap.. it's a sunny day here in London Town.. our Flowering Cherry is in bloom and life is good.. FlapFlap.
GeeGee Parrot.
April 9th, 2015.
PostScript: This, Dear Readers, is why she gets 'pretty steamy' under the collar about people who cheat the system, for by not paying their NIC stamp, they don't pay towards the cost of medical care.
And foreigners, of all nationalities, who come here to abuse our system's generosity which means they are treated free without checks on their nationality or Medical Insurance are thieves. They're, in her mind, the equivalent of shoplifters and as shoplifting increases the price of goods, as does their 'stealing' of medical treatment.
Apart from the chocolate connection, they had another very strong connection, for these families were members of the Society of Friends, this is the 'official' name of the Quakers, they are a Christian movement but not members of the Church of England.. aka C of E.
Way back in the fifteenth century King Henry 8th granted Royal Charters to both Cambridge and Oxford Universities and to the Royal College of Physicians, which is in London.
Fast forward to 19th century and a form of Social Medical Insurance was introduced by Otto von Bismarck, the German Chancellor. By taxation paid by those in employment, the unemployed, those unable to work ~ too young or too old or sick ~ would be given free medical treatment.
This policy became the basis of health care throughout Europe.
Please think, if you will, about how doctors (of what ever speciality) are trained. They are students, then they progress up the medical ladder, they do lots of further training to become consultants or specialists in their chosen field, most of them work between hospitals and a private practise.
In the UK, the NHS (National Health Service) work consultants do in big public hospitals is 'free' to the patient ~ except it isn't. For we, as UK Taxpayers, pay a percentage of our salary into the National Insurance, this cover our medical and dental care costs. The work consultants do outside the NHS is paid by private patients and it costs a pretty penny or two!
Most public hospitals in the UK will have a mixture of both NHS and Private Wards. If you are lucky enough to be treated by some of the UK's top consultants on the NHS, which she has and continues to be, you will receive extremely good medical treatment to which, as she DID pay her 'stamp'.. the nickname for National Insurance Contribution.. for over 30 years, she is fully entitled.
Sadly, she is aware that, to the eternal shame of the medical profession, there are hospitals in the UK whose medical and aftercare of patients is appalling and which do not go by their Hippocratic Oath of 'do no harm'.
But a huge amount of people, known as private patients, also pay into a Private Medical Insurance Scheme. This means they can get treatment faster, there is a waiting list on the National Health for most treatments, they can pretty much pick and choose who (and where) they want the treatment.
They go to direct a Private Doctor, non NH Surgery. It is extremely rare for the cost of these policies NOT to go up with age and, of course, your medical history is usually reflected in the insurance premiums.
Now we go back to the Quakers, because they were not members of the Church of England, they were not permitted to study medicine at either Cambridge or Oxford, neither were Catholics.
As the Quaker movement was 'red hot' on education, their further (university) education had to be obtained elsewhere, so in order to study medicine, they travelled to the Netherlands to the city of Leyden's university: side note: Edinburgh's famous medical school was founded by medical graduates from Leyden.
However, the Quaker doctors who were graduating from the Netherlands and Edinburgh and returning to Britain were not permitted to become members of the Royal College of Physicians, again because of having to be C of E. This meant that Quakers could not work in hospitals in order to specialise and become consultants.
And now comes the bit which is simply wonderful.. for the Quaker doctors started to build local community medical practises and some of the earliest ones were based in the area known as the Dales, in the heart of Yorkshire. They were known General Practises.. because they did not specialise.
So there you have it folks. The tale of how our GP's came into being, the method of payment for the GP's payment was mostly based, in the early days of these surgeries, on how much you could afford to pay.
The National Medical Insurance scheme as we know it today in the UK was introduced in 1911. It has been 'tweaked' now and then by successive Chancellors of the Exchequer.
Now she has to go to the Wimbledon Sewing Machine shop, which is not located in Wimbledon but in Tooting..?.. to purchase 2.5m of bleached calico, blue and yellow fabric paint and an alphabet stencil set with which to do a banner for a 'Singing With Dementia' BBQ being held in the summer.
So farewell from us.. FlapFlap.. it's a sunny day here in London Town.. our Flowering Cherry is in bloom and life is good.. FlapFlap.
GeeGee Parrot.
April 9th, 2015.
PostScript: This, Dear Readers, is why she gets 'pretty steamy' under the collar about people who cheat the system, for by not paying their NIC stamp, they don't pay towards the cost of medical care.
And foreigners, of all nationalities, who come here to abuse our system's generosity which means they are treated free without checks on their nationality or Medical Insurance are thieves. They're, in her mind, the equivalent of shoplifters and as shoplifting increases the price of goods, as does their 'stealing' of medical treatment.
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