The National Health Service

1948 1948 1940s 38 pages referred to a court of arbitration. One of the first duties of the General Whitley Council is to prepare an arbitration agreement for this purpose. 6 BUILDING THE NEW SERVICE THIS BOOKLET has tried to explain the reasons for the new deal in medical care, and the organisati...

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Main Author: Great Britain. Central Office of Information. (contributor)
Institution:MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
Language:English
English
Published: London : His Majesty's Stationery Office 1948
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Summary:1948 1948 1940s 38 pages referred to a court of arbitration. One of the first duties of the General Whitley Council is to prepare an arbitration agreement for this purpose. 6 BUILDING THE NEW SERVICE THIS BOOKLET has tried to explain the reasons for the new deal in medical care, and the organisation created for it by the Act. It has described what the medical services look like in the beginning, soon after the Act is in force. What will they look like in ten years' time? The Act is only the means of getting the new deal started. In what direction will the new partnership of the professions and the 'consumers' work to carry out their purpose of meeting the medical needs of the people adequately, everywhere? Six Main Aims The aims of the new deal follow from this purpose. They are worth repeating: (1) Up-to-date material resources. A large programme is needed as soon as it becomes practicable, for rebuilding and re-equipping hospitals and clinics and for constructing health centres. (2) Adequate human resources. More health workers of most kinds will have to be trained as soon as possible. (3) Better distribution of resources. The aim must be to bring more of the services to the places where the patient can conveniently use them. (4) Greater team work in serving the patient. This is necessary among family doctors, within the hospital service, and between all the services, to avoid the departmentalising of medicine which prevents doctors from seeing the patient as a 'whole person' rather than as a 'case'. (5) Encouragement of variety and experiment. Medical needs must be adequately met everywhere, but it would be wrong for them to be 34 21/1489
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