Essentials for a health service
1946 1946 1940s 12 pages these groups will be due for demobilisation and urgent consideration should be given to the way in which these doctors are to be absorbed into the health services. The question is whether most of these doctors should be allowed to drift into general practice under the old sy...
| 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
these groups will be due for demobilisation and urgent consideration should be given to the way in which these doctors are to be absorbed into the health services. The question is whether most of these doctors should be allowed to drift into general practice under the old system or whether arrangements can be devised to train them and employ them in work which will, with the minimum of reorganisation, be part of the new health services. The Communist Party has been keen to assist in the speedy development of the health services, and therefore presented the following Memorandum to the Minister of Health. In the belief that there were three immediate difficulties to overcome, there have been incorporated in the Memorandum suggestions to meet, firstly, the absorption of demobilised doctors; secondly, a policy for the recruitment and employment of nurses, much of which has been met in the Minister's paper on the Staffing of Hospitals; and thirdly, a note on administration and the necessity of developing a framework in which the hospital system, with the assistance of the local authorities, can most speedily be raised in efficiency, controlled in the most democratic way possible, and co-ordinated with the preventive and other curative services. Memorandum 1. Immediate Action IN presenting the following views to the Minister of Health, we have but one aim. In common with the whole Labour movement we wish to assist in the early initiation and rapid development of a comprehensive National Health Service. We realise the difficulties of the task and that further negotiations may be necessary with the medical profession and with the local authorities, but we believe that these need not prevent certain forms of immediate action being taken which will later facilitate transition to the new Service. The present deficiencies in the provision of medical services can best and soonest be overcome if plans are made now to encourage those medical men and women leaving the Services 3
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