The labour movement and the hospital crisis
1922 1922 1920s 21 pages 4. It would organise intimate co-operation between the medical staffs of the various hospitals, and also between them and general practitioners, making the participation of the latter an essential feature of the hospital scheme. 5. It would provide the health authorities wit...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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London ; published by the Trades Union Congress and the Labour Party
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4. It would organise intimate co-operation between the medical staffs of the various hospitals, and also between them and general practitioners, making the participation of the latter an essential feature of the hospital scheme. 5. It would provide the health authorities with sufficient beds under their own control to deal with all patients for whom they have already undertaken the responsibility. (Patients suffering from tuberculosis or venereal diseases ; children from the school clinics; mothers and infants from the maternity and child welfare centres; and adults under the National Health Insurance scheme.) 6. It would introduce the necessary legislation for the transference of the Poor Law infirmaries from the Guardians of the Poor to the local health authorities, thus placing at their disposal many beds now vacant. It woutd re-model these infirmaries, where necessary, equipping and conducting them in every way on the lines of the best existing General Hospitals. 7. It would give Voluntary Hospitals the option of being taken over by the health authorities entirely, of remaining on a voluntary basis entirely, or of receiving grants from public funds conditional on efficiency and the representation of the local health authority on the boards of management. It would secure close co-operation between those remaining entirely on a voluntary basis and the public hospitals. 8. It would relieve pressure on hospital beds in the cities and towns by acquiring convalescent homes in the country, into which should be admitted cases of threatened breakdown, and patients no longer requiring hospital treatment, but not sufficiently recovered to return home. 9. It would establish free dental clinics connected with all hospitals, believing that supervision and treatment of the teeth are essential to health. 10. It would also arrange a scheme for visiting nurses and home helps in connection with the hospital system, and lays special stress on the importance of skilled supervision and after-care of patients who have recovered, or partially recovered, from illness. 11. It would make all public hospitals free and open to everyone who would be likely to derive benefit from institutional treatment. 12. While doing this, it would insist on the treatment offered being equal to that of the best Voluntary Hospitals in efficiency. 13. It would endeavour to forestall the necessity for so many hospital beds by a forward social poticy generally, and in particular by establishing a "national minimum," by abolishing all slums, and by undertaking a comprehensive housing scheme. Printed by the VICTORIA HOUSE PRINTING CO., LTD., Tudor Street, London, E.C.4.
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