The legacy of voluntarism: Charitable funding in the early NHS
研究了1948年英国国民健康服务体系成立后，原志愿医院的捐赠基金去向及慈善在公立医院资助中的持续作用，并比较了英国各构成国的差异。
Abstract Before 1948, approximately one‐third of the United Kingdom (UK)’s hospital beds were located in voluntary hospitals, many of which continued to benefit from the funds generated by their historic endowments. When the National Health Service (NHS) was created, the vast majority of these hospitals were taken over by the State. This paper examines the neglected question of what happened to these endowments and the role which charity continued to play in the funding of NHS hospitals more generally. It makes an explicit attempt to examine the development of hospital services in each of the UK's constituent nations and shows how the treatment of endowments and the role of charity differed between them. It also highlights the continuing importance of arguments over the ‘boundaries’ between ‘essential’ and ‘non‐essential’ forms of health service expenditure, and between the roles of the statutory and voluntary sectors more generally.