The National Health Service
1948 1948 1940s 38 pages board, arranged to link it both with the university and with the hospital service. The university, the regional board, and the doctors and dentists actually teaching in the hospital each nominate up to one-fifth of the governors ; the remainder are appointed by the Minister...
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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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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10796/600C2973-3A9F-4E12-B024-3CCB5E1F7C87 http://hdl.handle.net/10796/D3BA9672-8B20-4D02-B291-3A99C8094E30 |
| Summary: | 1948
1948
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board, arranged to link it both with the university and with the hospital service. The university, the regional board, and the doctors and dentists actually teaching in the hospital each nominate up to one-fifth of the governors ; the remainder are appointed by the Minister after consultation with Local Health Authorities and other interested bodies. They include many leading members of the former voluntary governing bodies. Voluntary Help Still Needed The teaching hospitals keep the gifts, legacies and other endowments which have helped them so much in the past. The endowments of other voluntary hospitals, passing with them to the State, are now pooled in a special Hospital Endowments Fund. Each regional board then receives a share of this fund, but the greater part of it is to be divided among the hospital management committees, to be spent as they like for hospital purposes on any sort of 'extras', ranging from outings for convalescent patients to new research projects. Teaching hospitals, regional boards, and management committees are all free to accept new gifts and endowments in the future. But all will look to the Exchequer for the running of their real service, and none will have to depend on gifts, endowments or flag days. Voluntary gifts of money or property are, nevertheless, very welcome. Even more important, however, is voluntary service, which remains as necessary and valuable now as in the past. The regional boards, management committees, and boards of teaching hospitals are in a real sense mixed voluntary bodies of the best type. They are designed to organise the freely given services of experts of all kinds — professors, specialists, family doctors, nurses and others — and of non-professional men and women who are interested in the hospitals and in the good of their own communities. Thousands of these well-wishers are helping to run local hospitals as members of the new management committees ; many more will serve as co-opted members on the many house committees (for individual hospitals) and committees for special purposes (such as the social life of hospitals and the welfare of patients) which management committees need to help them in their work. Nor is committee work the only field for personal service. Practical help in the daily affairs of the hospitals is needed as much as ever, and there are a hundred and one ways of giving it — such as the visiting of patients, the running of hospital libraries, the work of linen guilds, and so on. The universities, the Local Health Authorities, and the different professions of the Service are all well represented on the regional boards and the teaching hospital boards ; health authorities and hospital and family doctors are also well represented on the local management committees, 14
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