A Socialised Medical Service
1933 1933 1930s 21 pages simplest cases to talk the matter over with this officer, who would, in addition to his consulting duties, undertake the treatment of patients. (c) Hospitals All the experience of recent years seems to point to the conclusion that an increasing amount of sickness will be bes...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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| Language: | English English |
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London : The Socialist Medical Association
1933
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| Summary: | 1933
1933
1930s
21 pages
simplest cases to talk the matter over with this officer, who would, in addition to his consulting duties, undertake the treatment of patients. (c) Hospitals All the experience of recent years seems to point to the conclusion that an increasing amount of sickness will be best treated under hospital conditions in the future. Therefore, the ideal medical service will need to have associated with it a complete and co-ordinated hospital system. Further, it would appear that with the exception of Tuberculosis, infectious fevers, and advanced mental disease, most illnesses suitable for hospital treatment are best dealt with in the wards of a general hospital where the services of specialists in the various branches of medicine and surgery are readily obtainable and where any necessary pathological examinations can be carried out. All the hospitals will be closely linked together to form a single hospital system so that cases of special difficulty can be readily transferred from one to another as required, and for this and many other purposes an efficient ambulance service is essential. Each county will have its own general hospital or hospitals in the county town and other large centres. The hospitals will be staffed by specialists who will also see cases in the Health Centres. The hospitals will receive patients sent them direct by the Home Doctors of the county who will be encouraged to keep in touch with their patients while in hospital, and in addition cases transferred from the smaller hospitals of the county. The needs of medical education will probably be best met by attaching medical schools to the county hospitals in university and certain other towns. Most of the patients in these hospitals will be drawn from the county in which the hospital is situated, and the cost of their treatment will be met by the county. But, in addition, it will be possible to transfer to these hospitals cases of special difficulty or interest from any part of the country. The cost of treatment of such patients could be paid for by the county from which they come. In addition to these county and university hospitals, there will be smaller hospitals especially for accidents and for chronic or less serious cases dotted about the county. In charge of each of these hospitals will be a capable resident medical officer. Where members of the Home Service are living sufficiently near, they will be encouraged to continue the treatment of their patients after their admission to these hospitals. In addition, specialists attached to the county or university hospitals will be called upon to see patients in consultations in the wards of these hospitals, either when they attend at the adjacent Health Centre or when specially sent for. The close association between these local hospitals and the county hospital will make easy the transfer of cases to the latter when required. 11
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