A Socialised Medical Service
1933 1933 1930s 21 pages 2. — NURSING STAFF While these changes in the conditions of service of medical men are being made the whole position of nurses and the nursing service must be developed along parallel lines. Working conditions must be such as to attract the best type of girl to the...
| 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
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2. — NURSING STAFF While these changes in the conditions of service of medical men are being made the whole position of nurses and the nursing service must be developed along parallel lines. Working conditions must be such as to attract the best type of girl to the service, and the hours must be reduced as rapidly as recruitment of nurses permits. Conditions as to pensions, service on committees. &c., must be identical with those for medical officers. 3. — PATHOLOGY It is important that pathology should not be divorced from clinical medicine. Pathologists, physicians, and surgeons must work together in close association. Pathological laboratories will, therefore, be required in all Health Centres and Hospitals, and in addition in most counties a special laboratory will be needed for the production of anti-toxins, sera, &c. The detailed organisation of the required laboratory services is best left to a representative committee of the pathologists of the county. Every laboratory will be staffed by at least one technician and one medically qualified pathologist, who may be part-time, i.e., undertake duty at more than one laboratory. The laboratories will be grouped in areas and a larger "Group" laboratory will supply Media, Stains, &c., to its satellites and carry out special and difficult investigations. Most of the research work will be done in these "Group" Laboratories. 4. — RESEARCH Money wisely spent on research is money well spent, but this alone will not provide the genius capable of original research, which is even more important than money. Means must be found for seeking out the right type of person, and the first step should be a radical alteration in the whole system of medical education and in the method of selecting those who are to be the doctors and scientists of the future. It must be remembered that there is no monopoly of genius in any one class of the community, and that the science of medicine owes much of its present broad basis to Louis Pasteur, the son of a French peasant. If sufficient men and women endowed by Nature with power to advance science are to be found, the doors of our universities and medical schools must be thrown more widely open, and training and maintenance allowances must be provided from Public Funds. Every doctor in the Public Service should be encouraged to carry out research work, and the amount of routine work allotted to him should be so arranged that except in emergency he has sufficient time at his disposal. Moreover, his status and advancement should depend to some extent on the value of the research work, pathological or clinical, which 14
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