The National Health Service
1948 1948 1940s 38 pages also for dentists, pharmaceutical services, a maternity and child welfare centre, and nursing and midwifery staff of Local Health Authorities. They may contain facilities for specialist and out-patient services in connection with the hospitals. Health Centres will be a means...
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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
also for dentists, pharmaceutical services, a maternity and child welfare centre, and nursing and midwifery staff of Local Health Authorities. They may contain facilities for specialist and out-patient services in connection with the hospitals. Health Centres will be a means of bringing the branches of the service into close relationship — of linking the preventative and welfare services (including health education) of the Local Health Authorities with the curative work of the family doctors and dentists and of the hospital and specialist services. The buildings will be provided, equipped and maintained by the Local Health Authorities who will also provide the staff except family doctors and dentists. The doctors will be under contract to the Executive Council in the ordinary way. The Executive Council will make agreed payments to the Local Health Authority for accommodation and other facilities provided at Health Centres for family doctors and will recover an appropriate sum from the individual doctors. 4 THE FAMILY DOCTOR AND HIS PATIENTS THE 'family practitioner services' — those of the family doctor, the dentist, the pharmacist, the ophthalmic doctor and the ophthalmic optician — have been outlined at the end of Chapter 1. For nearly everybody the family doctor is the pivot of the whole scheme apart from dental treatment. How is his relationship with his patients to work? The Family Doctor Anyone who wants to use the free family doctor service must take certain steps to join it. He chooses a doctor willing to give him medical care when he needs it and is then put on that doctor's list of patients. This is necessary because the doctor accepts a personal responsibility for the medical care of the persons on his list as well as a collective responsibility along with other doctors for all persons using the family doctor service ; so that everyone who wants to use the service —babies, children and housewives, as well as earners — needs to have a medical 24
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