The Health Services
1944-05 1944 1940s 23 pages 17 VI. — THE PROPOSED NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE. The Government's proposals are issued in a White Paper (CMD. 6502, 1s.), so that they may be examined and discussed before they are embodied in legislation. 1. Scope of the New Service. A National Heal...
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London : C. W. Publishing Ltd.
May 1944
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17 VI. — THE PROPOSED NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE. The Government's proposals are issued in a White Paper (CMD. 6502, 1s.), so that they may be examined and discussed before they are embodied in legislation. 1. Scope of the New Service. A National Health Service is to be established, providing for all citizens, free of charge, every type of medical attention — general and specialist, at home, in hospital and elsewhere. 2. Central Organisation. The Minister of Health † will be advised by the Central Health Services Council (an expert body). It will act through the Central Medical Board (mainly professional) to administer the new General Practitioner Service, and regulate the distribution of doctors. 3. Local Organisation. New Joint authorities for each area,* composed of the County and County Borough Councils, and advised by a Local Health Services Council, will submit to the Minister an "Area Plan," and will administer the Hospital, Specialist and Consultant Services. Acting separately the County and County Borough Councils will provide local services, e.g., clinics, home nursing, midwifery, health visiting, child welfare, etc., and will provide and maintain the new Health Centres. 4. — General Practitioner Service. No patient will be obliged to make use of the public service. Those who do so will have free choice of doctor from those available in the locality. No doctor will be obliged to enter public practice. A doctor who does so will not be debarred from taking private patients, but the extent of his public practice — and consequently his remuneration — will be limited according to the amount of his private patients. Recently-qualified doctors entering public practice may be required in certain areas to do so on a full-time basis, and will in any case have to serve for a time as assistant to an experienced practitioner. Medical Practice in the new service will be a combination of grouped and separate practice. † In Scotland the Secretary of State. * Boundaries of areas to be determined later by the Minister.
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