Statement in regard to the Minister of Health's White Paper on the establishment of "A National Health Service."
1944 1944 1940s 18 pages But this is not all. Suppose the Joint Authority develops and [an] idea moulded on the experience of advanced progressive authorities, it has yet to obtain the good-will of the "professional and experts" people, and it is well know that once these have a fi...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
|---|---|
| Language: | English English |
| Published: |
[1944]
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10796/79EAE6DE-B97B-4BA7-9ACC-CDBD8A26D6B1 http://hdl.handle.net/10796/824109C5-85DB-46AF-9575-1C66624DA101 |
| Summary: | 1944
1944
1940s
18 pages
But this is not all. Suppose the Joint Authority develops and [an] idea moulded on the experience of advanced progressive authorities, it has yet to obtain the good-will of the "professional and experts" people, and it is well know that once these have a finger in the pie, delay and procrastination arises. Nursing domiciliary services, instead of uniformity being regarded as a duty of the local authority, will be left to the caprice and vagaries of local authority decisions. They can be administered either by local authorities or by arrangement with local authority organisations, such as those running the present haphazard arrangements. It would be interesting to ascertain from the Minister the types he regards as 'professional and expert'? Is a trade unionist who for years has been a member of a Borough Council, and has been responsible for the establishment of say Maternity and child Welfare Clinics in his Borough and for their maintenace [maintenance] Would he be regarded as an expert, as against a medical man who has been recognised for years as a definite opponent of the scheme? Yet through the B.M.A. the latter may be on the Central or Local Health Services Council and still continue his obstructionist tactics against the best interest of the citizen and the locality. As an "expert" obstructionist a useful member. 13. HOSPITAL AND INSTITUTIONAL EMPLOYEES. The position of Hospital and Insitutional [Institutional] employees under the White Paper is extremely obscure. It is also extremely dangerous. As has been previously indicated, there is no indication whatsoever as to what authority will be responsible for their contracts of service. Neither is it made clear as to how existing Local Government Authorities who have statutory obligations under the Public Health Acts; Mental Treatment Act and the Poor Law Acts are going to be relieved of these responsibilities and in what manner such responsibilities are to be transferred to some other undefined body. The services rendered in the past by all existing hospital and institutional employees demands an answer to this question.? When the functions of Boards of Guardians were abolished it was a simple matter to transfer all such functions and the then existing staffs, with accrued liabilities, to other statutory bodies such as the County and County Borough Councils. Not so in the hotch potch now presented. Obscurity is the key-stone for obvious reasons. The White Paper as we see it envisages the co-ordination of all Hospital and Institutional Services. What are these? (i) Hospitals appropriated under the Public Health Act and administered by County and County Borough Councils. (ii) Public Assistance Insitutions [Institutions] and Infirmaries not appropriated but administered under the Public Assistance Order, 1930. (iii) Mental Hospitals and Mental Deficiency Insitutions [Institutions]. The reference in the report is as follows:- "The mental hospitals and mental deficiency institutions have also to be included in the scope of the hospital and consultant part of the new service under the care of the new joint authorities. They will present many problems of their own calling for some degree of special organisation to fit them" (iv) Muncipal [Municipal] and other local Authority Hospitals, some general but mainly infectious. (v) Joint Hospital Boards created by Local Authorities for certain types of diseases. (vi) Voluntary Hospitals of all classes. (vii) Ancillary services such as pathological; X ray; electro-therapy; 11.
292/847/2/43 |
|---|---|
| Physical Description: | TEXT |