The People's Health
1943-10 1943 1940s 36 pages About the National Health Service and the General Practitioner I want to say this. In a National Health Service he would be given opportunities for refresher courses which he does not get today. He would be given time and opportunities to keep abeast [abreast] of developm...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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| Language: | English English |
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Newcastle-on-Tyne : North-East District Committee, Communist Party
1943
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| Summary: | 1943-10
1943
1940s
36 pages
About the National Health Service and the General Practitioner I want to say this. In a National Health Service he would be given opportunities for refresher courses which he does not get today. He would be given time and opportunities to keep abeast [abreast] of developments in medicine and surgery. I feel that the whole position of the general practitioner would be very much better in a National Health Service. I met a doctor friend just the other day who has had a long and hard struggle in a very poor and difficult parish. He assured me that he would welcome a National Health Service because it would improve his own lot and the lot of his patients too. I have in mind, too, a Medical Officer of Health, who said to me: "How can I talk about preventive medicine when 80 per cent. of the people in my area are on Public Assistance or living on a standard which never rises far above that provided by the P.A.C." Just a point about sewerage in this area. I am gratified, as all of us must be, that we have the River Tyne here. God knows what we would be like without it. It was not put there by scientific methods, yet it is one of the most important protectors of our health. A vital matter of this kind is just left to chance when between the two wars we had millions of unemployed who could have been building the finest sewerage system for the North-East that anyone could wish for. With regard to the School Medical Service. It is obvious that a National Health Service would include a School Medical Service and it would be our desire to assist its purpose as far as possible. But I want to say that under capitalism we cannot get just that kind of Health Service that all of us want so much. But we can get substantial improvements. It is these improvements we want now and which we want a united Labour Movement to demand. The Communist Party is to be commended upon the organisation of this Conference. I am sure that the Labour Party could not find one word said here about a National Health Service with which it could disagree. Here are grounds then for unity and unity of the working class is essential for progress and for attaining such a thing as a National Health Service. I can only end by saying that it is towards such an end we should direct ourselves. 31
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