King's College Hospital, London - Fees January 1921

[Anniemcc2]

Just 3 years post WW1. God bless the NHS.

For reference £1 in 1921 = £48.60 in 2019; so 5/- = apx. £12.15 in today's money.

Average yearly wage of factory workers in 1920 - Male £204 15s 9d - Female £99 1s 6d

[cornishmaid1961]

We have a lot to be thankful for these days. A good job Meebo isn't living in 1921 with her three appointments that came through this morning !

[astral276]

Probably a bit simplistic to just look at that poster.

Today you are still paying but through your taxes - whether you use the services or not. How much the average person pays towards the NHS each year I have no idea.

What the NHS does provide is treatment for those without the means to pay.

[moonwitch]

What the NHS does provide is treatment for those without the means to pay.

The NHS also provides treatment for those WITH the means to pay.

My current day to day treatment isn't available on the NHS so I have to pay for mine.

I wouldn't have liked to have been billed for the emergency treatment relating to my cardiac arrest though and the 3 week stay in hospital afterwards.

On balance though..I think I have had a good deal out of the NHS

[olivia8143]

Thank you Nye Bevan

[moonwitch]

Thank you Nye Bevan

You clearly missed my post where I pointed out that the NHS doesn't pay for my meds...I do.

[cambrensis]

Probably a bit simplistic to just look at that poster.

Today you are still paying but through your taxes - whether you use the services or not. How much the average person pays towards the NHS each year I have no idea.

What the NHS does provide is treatment for those without the means to pay.

You pay whether you use or not is the basis of all insurance schemes, private or national. Very few can afford to pay today's prces wthout them. I haven't paid for 14 years now as you cease paying upon retirement, (there's a clue for you! VBG)

I continued working for 3 years, when the company I was working for ceased trading.

On retirement they send you the necessary paperwork for your employer under those circumstances, so off it all went to company HQ. The following month I was stopped National Insurance, so I 'phoned Head Office.

"Oh! I simply filed that", said the National Manager. It should have been sent to the company they used to sort out wages, etc. "I've never seen those forms before, Ian," said the National Manager! My reply? "Well, Dick, strangely enough, neither have I !!!"

I remember my mother crying with relief when that bill went through...
Kids caught everything under the sun then - measles, mumps, whooping cough..." So much better and safer now. thank God - and Neu Bevan, of course!

Currently I'm on five lots of medication every day - such a relief not to have to pay out for daring to get older!

[buttons-and-bows]

I have good news and bad, Mike has had to go to the hospital for tests today and he has something wrong with his wrists, the good news is he wont be able to drive my new car

[buttons-and-bows]

and i just posted this on the wrong thread

[cambrensis]

Unfair trick, Buttons! I thought my brain had gone at last!