Post-war hospital problems (letter)
1943-08-31 1943 1940s 6 pages REGISTERED POST Social Insurance JLS/MC/1156 PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL 31st August, 1943 Mr. C. Murdoch, Scottish Union of Bakers, Confectioners and Bakery Workers, 5, Burnbank Gardens, Glasgow, N.W. Dear Charlie, POST-WAR HOSPITAL PROBLEMS I am returning the draft repo...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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31 August 1943
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1943
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REGISTERED POST Social Insurance JLS/MC/1156 PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL 31st August, 1943 Mr. C. Murdoch, Scottish Union of Bakers, Confectioners and Bakery Workers, 5, Burnbank Gardens, Glasgow, N.W. Dear Charlie, POST-WAR HOSPITAL PROBLEMS I am returning the draft report of your Committee on Post-War Hospital Problems which you were good enough to lend me. Unfortunately I have not been able to go through the report with the care that I would like, but I have glanced through it and have read the recommendations. I know you will not mind if I speak frankly. I really think that you are too generous to the voluntary hospitals. You are giving them grants for maintenance and also for treatment. They will get grants from both the Social Security Fund and the local rates so that rate payers, in addition to paying for their own hospital, will be making grants to voluntary hospitals without any say in their management. In addition of course the teaching hospitals will get the usual educational grants. The report would really put voluntary hospitals in a much stronger position than they are at present and would make it impossible to absorb them as a public service even later on. I realise your difficulties because of the terms of reference but all the same it seems to me that the draft report is dangerous to our Movement from the point of view that it is in effect an endorsement of the policy announced by the Minister of Health which of course we do not accept. I took the liberty of asking Dr. Morgan to look at the document also and he endorses the views that I am expressing. P.T.O. ENC.
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