Essentials for a health service
1946 1946 1940s 12 pages to find their appropriate places in the new Service. As is well known, part of these deficiencies, the result of wartime withdrawal of personnel into the Forces and of the unreplaced wastage of the war years, will largely disappear during the next six months, when most of th...
| 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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1946
1940s
12 pages
to find their appropriate places in the new Service. As is well known, part of these deficiencies, the result of wartime withdrawal of personnel into the Forces and of the unreplaced wastage of the war years, will largely disappear during the next six months, when most of those older doctors who have practices to which they can return are demobilised. But there will still remain deficiencies which result, from the lack of adequate pre-war provision in some important branches of medical practice. To remedy these, we are of opinion that plans should be made to make the best use of the services of the young doctors who will later be demobilised. The younger doctors in the Services are not only discontented with underwork and delay in demobilisation but are anxious about their future. They ask whether their return will compel them to find practices under great financial loading, whether other work is likely to be available to them, or whether the proposed National Health Service will render all their prospects unstable. It would indeed be a pity if their discontent and anxiety turned to ill-will against the National Health Service. We suggest it would not be wise to let them establish practices now only to increase the compensation that the community would have to pay later. Consequently, any method which would provide them with the opportunity of doing medical work under acceptable conditions and which would ease the difficulties of transition to the new Service should be closely studied. Many of these younger doctors will have had little or no post-graduate training or experience apart from Service activity. They will need re-training for civilian medicine and will need assurance that they can be absorbed into suitable employment after training. We therefore ask you to consider the following proposals:— (1) The provision of six months' post-graduate training with adequate remuneration for all demobilised medical men and women who are willing to accept suitable appointments at the end of that period. There should be several types of training available, each leading to one or other of the services recommended below for development or expansion. The doctors should be free to choose whichever type of training they prefer, provided employment will still be available in the service chosen when the training is completed. (2) The development of new, and expansion of existing 4
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