The National Health Service
1948 1948 1940s 38 pages 5 THE AUTHORITIES AND THE PROFESSIONS THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE could not possibly work if it were not divided into sections and parts for daily management, and it will not work well unless the members of all these sections join forces to serve the patient. The regional...
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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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1948
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5 THE AUTHORITIES AND THE PROFESSIONS THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE could not possibly work if it were not divided into sections and parts for daily management, and it will not work well unless the members of all these sections join forces to serve the patient. The regional board, the Local Health Authority and the Executive Council must each weave together the work of the various services and institutions for which it is responsible. But the work of all these bodies and of the teaching hospitals must itself be woven together to avoid 'departmentalising' the patient, whose needs cut across the boundaries of business management. This will be done partly by the sharing of representatives between all the various boards, committees and councils — the cross-representation which has already been explained — and still more by their sharing of doctors and other experts in teams for the service of the patient. Combined Planning The Ministry also has a hand in the weaving together of the services. Before the plans of regional boards and Local Health Authorities were approved they were carefully examined to see whether the services had been arranged in the best available pattern. In these duties of general oversight and guidance, including the settling of any dispute which may arise, the Ministry is helped at every step by the advice of its own experts and of outside experts drawn from all the services under discussion. The Act sets up a Central Health Services Council of 41 members, with a majority of doctors, to advise the Minister on general matters relating to any or all of the services. Six doctors are members by right of office — the presidents of the Royal Colleges, of Physicians, Surgeons, and Obstetricians, and of the General Medical Council, and the chairmen of the councils of the B.M.A. and the Society of Medical Officers of Health. The other members were appointed by the Minister after consulting the representative organisations. They are 15 doctors (including two experts in mental illness and mental defect), five non-medical experts in hospital management, three dentists, two nurses, one midwife, 32
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