Lead-in
Cultural Values
Reading
Etiquette
Cultural Notes
Task 1: Read the text and answer the questions
Dilemma
The NHS aims to deliver comprehensive, universal and free medical service.
It still has not achieved its goals for lack of funding, understaffing and closure of local services. Centralization drives, and an increase in reliance on privatized services. It can campaign for more funding from the government, which can be used to recruit more doctors and nurses, and increase hospital beds for patients.
Dilemma
Why did the schemes in the “People’s Budget” of 1909 fail?
They had obvious limitations like meagre pension and unemployment insurance exclusive of hospital care, and spouses and children, which has attracted criticism from the British Medical Association, middle-class households and so on.
