General Medical Service for the Nation : The Question of Medical Institutions and Hospitals
1938-07-06 1938 1930s 4 pages -4- 13. The B.M.A. Scheme has apparently looked upon the Hospital purely from the point of view of the medical practitioner, both general and consultant; but in a National Scheme a wider survey is required. 14. These considerations are of special interest at the momen...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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| Language: | English English |
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6 July 1938
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| Summary: | 1938-07-06
1938
1930s
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-4- 13. The B.M.A. Scheme has apparently looked upon the Hospital purely from the point of view of the medical practitioner, both general and consultant; but in a National Scheme a wider survey is required. 14. These considerations are of special interest at the moment, in that in a review of the hospitals Year Book for 1938; the British Medical Journal, the organ of the British Medical Association, has given pronouncement to the views of Professor Ernest Barker of Cambridge, who, giving an address on "The State and Voluntary Hospitals" to the British Hospitals Associations, suggested that the State should now make its contribution to the Voluntary Hospital. In his own words that "State charity should be added to the resources and achievements of private charity". The method of State aid he suggests should be by a method similar to that of the Universities' Grant Committee, which receives and distributes the annual Parliamentary Grant of £2,000,000 and over to the Universities, attaching no specific conditions. He suggests that a Hospitals' Grants Committee might receive an annual Parliamentary grant, apparently, again, on the principle of public money being given to a voluntary, unrepresentative institution with selected and not representative management, without any representation on its administration either of the general body of taxpayers or of the electors in any particular region. 15. The whole subject is a difficult one requiring serious consideration, and from the lay point of view on different lines to that submitted in the British Medical Association publication. HBM/EKK/CAB/1552/5/7/38.
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