The State Medical Service Association was a pressure group formed by British doctors early in the twentieth century to press for reform of health services.
One of its demands was for "freeing a large section of medical men and women from such distasteful and incongruous work as the assessing and collecting of fees for services rendered."[1] It wanted to build on the National Insurance Act 1911 and develop a National Health Service, including hospital care in a comprehensive service.[2]