The National Health Service
1948 1948 1940s 38 pages Some special institutions, such as large mental hospitals and tuberculosis sanatoria, may continue to be managed by a full-time senior doctor. One effect of the new arrangements is to break down the isolation in which the Mental Health Service has tended to function. Throug...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
| Language: | English English |
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London : His Majesty's Stationery Office
1948
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| Summary: | 1948
1948
1940s
38 pages
Some special institutions, such as large mental hospitals and tuberculosis sanatoria, may continue to be managed by a full-time senior doctor. One effect of the new arrangements is to break down the isolation in which the Mental Health Service has tended to function. Through the integration of that Service in the National Health Service, the treatment of mental illness will have a chance of approximating more closely to the treatment of physical illness. More provision will be made for the treatment of early nervous and mental disorders in general hospitals. The specialists in general hospitals in turn will enter more freely into the work in mental hospitals. Universities and Teaching Hospitals The teaching hospitals share with the universities the tasks of training students to become doctors and dentists, of turning doctors into specialists, and of conducting medical research. In the regional centres of Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Newcastle, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Oxford and Sheffield, the existing teaching hospitals, each with its group of associated hospitals (for diseases of women and children, for dentistry, maternity, and so forth), have been designated as the medical teaching centres of their regions. For the Cambridge region, which had a postgraduate teaching hospital, a similar group of existing hospitals has been formed and designated. In the same way the twelve undergraduate teaching hospitals in London (each with its associated group of satellite institutions) have been designated. The teaching hospitals are used for postgraduate as well as undergraduate training, but in London there are many special hospitals reserved for postgraduate studies. They include a famous children's hospital and hospitals for the study and treatment of cancer, tuberculosis, nervous and mental disorders, diseases of the eye, the skin, the heart, the teeth and other special conditions. These have been designated singly or in groups, and constitute the basis for the postgraduate institutes of the University of London in the British Postgraduate Medical Federation serving the whole country and, indeed, the Empire. The very important duties of the teaching hospitals can best be fulfilled if these hospitals remain separate from, though very closely linked with, both the regional service and the university. Though they serve the public exceptionally well like any other hospital, the teaching hospitals are specially picked centres for medical training and study, and therefore draw their patients from a wider area than the ordinary hospital. There need be no clash between direct service of the public by the giving of treatment, and indirect service by the advancement of medical science. Each designated teaching hospital has its own mixed governing 13
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