The Health Services
1944-05 1944 1940s 23 pages 20 21 VII.— PROPOSALS OF SOME PUBLIC BODIES. LIBERAL PARTY. LABOUR PARTY AND SOCIALIST MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. COMMUNIST PARTY. BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. SOCIETY OF MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH. GOVERNMENT. The Central Authority should be Ministry of Health w...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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| Language: | English English |
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London : C. W. Publishing Ltd.
May 1944
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| Summary: | 1944-05
1944
1940s
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20 21 VII.— PROPOSALS OF SOME PUBLIC BODIES. LIBERAL PARTY. LABOUR PARTY AND SOCIALIST MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. COMMUNIST PARTY. BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. SOCIETY OF MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH. GOVERNMENT. The Central Authority should be Ministry of Health with extended powers. Ministry with health as sole function. Ministry of Health with extended powers. a corporate body. Ministry with health as sole function. Ministry of Health (In Scotland the Secretary of State). Administration should be through local authorities or joint committees. democratically elected regional authorities. elected regional health boards. new administrative bodies covering wide areas. new local authorities working in larger areas. Central Medical Board for G.P. Service ; local authorities jointly for hospitals, etc., and severally for local services. The service should be free for all. free for all. free for all. limited to persons within the present N.H.I. income limit free for all. free for all. and financed by taxation. rates and taxes. public money. either direct payments through insurance or contributory schemes. rates and taxes. taxes, rates and social insurance. National Health Insurance should be superseded by a state medical service. superseded by a state medical service. superseded by a national health service. extended to include dependants and others of like economic status and to provide specialist service. superseded by a national health service. superseded by the national health service. Doctors in public service should be paid by basic salary and capitation fees. full-time salary. salary. basic salary capitation fees and direct payments. full time salary salaries in grouped practice ; capitation fees in separate practice. Doctors in public service should be permitted to carry on private practice. prohibited from carrying on private practice permitted to carry on private practice. permitted to carry on on private practice. — permitted to carry on private practice. Health Centres should be the unit of the health service. the basis of first line health services. developed into important features of every community. tried experimentally in some districts. established in each area. established by local authorities at their discretion. Hospitals should be under direction of local authorities and conform to certain principles. No interference in the internal organisation of voluntary hospitals. all be brought within the national service on equitable terms. be brought into a unified system. be regarded as a branch of a single health service. The voluntary hospitals to continue. be available to all members of The the public on similar terms and conditions. be part of joint authorities Area Plans, the voluntary hospitals, it is hoped, participating on a contractual and autonomous basis. This table records some of the main controversial issues, but cannot deal with the more subtle distinctions. It is based on the following: Liberals, Health for the People, 1942, 1s. ; Labour, National Service for Health, 1943, 2d. ; Communist, Memorandum on a National Medical Service, 1942, 1s. ; B.M.A., Recommendations of Representative Meeting, 1943 ; Socialist Medical Association, The Socialist Programme for Health, 1942, 6d. ; Society of Medical Officers of Health, A National Health Service, 1942. The Medical Planning Commission is not included because it was established by the B.M.A. and differs little from it.
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