Hospitals

• How did Henry VIII's reformation affect healthcare?

  He closed down catholic monasteries in the 1530s destroying the main way ordinary people could receive healthcare
• How were hospitals set up between 1500-1800?

  -With grants from the monarch

  -churches

  -Charitable gifts of private people (e.g. Thomas Guy in London 1724)
• How did the Hospitals between 1500 and 1800 benefit doctors?

  They get paid by private customers
• How did the hospitals between 1500 and 1800 benefit the poor?

  They could get treated for free and receive free medicine
• What were Important hospitals?

  -St Lukes (2nd largest public hospital, treated mentally ill)

  -Lock Hospital (specialised in treating STDs)

  -Middlesex (specialised in mothers and babies)

  -Foundling (cared for orphaned children providing home and education)
• How did changing social attitudes affect the 'hospital boom'?

  Many christians wanted to demonstrate their faith by doing good deeds in the community so they donated
• How were Medieval hospitals different to those in 1500-1800?

  -New hospitals set up by charities, councils, rich but old set up by church and monasteries

  -Old staffed by monks and nuns but new staffed by doctors, surgeons, nurses

  -both treated poor and not people with infectious diseases

  -Both used treatments of prayer, rest, food, herbal remedies

  -old had only 700 and were mainly small with only 12 beds but new were treating 20,000 patients a year by 1800