A plan for a national hospital service
1946-03-18 1946 1940s 2 pages 3. Regional Hospital Boards would be appointed by the Minister and charged with the duty of planning and extending the hospital services so that the whole field of hospital treatment would be covered in each Region, while leaving the patient freedom of choice of hospita...
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| Summary: | 1946-03-18
1946
1940s
2 pages
3. Regional Hospital Boards would be appointed by the Minister and charged with the duty of planning and extending the hospital services so that the whole field of hospital treatment would be covered in each Region, while leaving the patient freedom of choice of hospital. One of the great medical teaching centres would be associated with each of these Regions. The Board would decide the nature of the services required from each hospital in its Region and be vested with such executive powers as may be necessary to ensure that its plan would be put into operation. These Boards would be appointed after consultation with the appropriate bodies including the universities and would (as in the case of the Central Hospitals Board) be wholly or mainly representative in composition. 4. The individual hospital therefore, through its Committee of Management, would remain entirely responsible for the internal management and general conduct of its affairs; but its first duty would be to provide the service required of it under the Regional plan. 5. The Voluntary Hospital would retain in trust its buildings and assets, thus preserving its entity and ensuring a reasonable degree of freedom in the interests of medical research and progress, of the service, of the patient and of the community. 6. Finance. So far as the voluntary hospital is concerned it would receive payment from the State for services required and rendered but would still be free to attract personal interest in its work and support for special purposes, for any activities outside the scope of the National Service, and for the general improvement of its services including the comfort of both patients and staff. It is believed that this plan will commend itself to the public, and particularly to the millions of those in all walks of life, without distinction of creed or political party, who know and believe in the voluntary hospitals. It interprets what the Prime Minister, in his Broadcast Appeal to the Nation, said on 3rd March, 1946 : "WE WANT THE TEAM SPIRIT" "TRADITION WITH PROGRESS" [This plan would apply equally to Scotland and therefore references to the Minister of Health should be read, in the case of Scotland, as references to the Secretary of State.] THE BRITISH HOSPITALS ASSOCIATION, 52, GREEN STREET, LONDON, W.1. 18th March, 1946 S&D Ltd - 27555
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