Essentials for a health service
1946 1946 1940s 12 pages ESSENTIALS for a HEALTH SERVICE Introductory Note THE Communist Party has given considerable attention to the problems involved in building up a National Health Service and watched with much disquiet the prolonged negotiations with the British Medical Association and other...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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| Language: | English English |
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London : Communist Party
1946
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| Summary: | 1946
1946
1940s
12 pages
ESSENTIALS for a HEALTH SERVICE Introductory Note THE Communist Party has given considerable attention to the problems involved in building up a National Health Service and watched with much disquiet the prolonged negotiations with the British Medical Association and other interested bodies during the last years of the Coalition Government. Now, with the Labour Party in power, it is to be hoped that a Bill to establish the National Health Service will be presented without delay, and at last we will be able to look forward to a rapid advance on all fronts of the health service. The problem is one of extreme complexity because there are so many different aspects of a service which includes preventive and curative services, the care of maternity, child welfare, mental disease, tuberculosis and industrial medicine, and also the administration of a variety of units such as clinics and hospitals. Furthermore, the individual services are at present very uneven in their distribution and in their level of efficiency. It is clear that though the White Paper (Cmd. 6502) suggested a more or less satisfactory basis on which to plan the Service, there is room for improvement in an endeavour to make the Service fully comprehensive, and to ensure the rapid development of new methods such as practice in health centres. There is, however, one immediate problem which has arisen from the termination of the war. Many thousands of medical men were called up to work in the Armed Forces and include a large number who have held no other form of employment after qualification than junior house appointments. Shortly 2
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