National Health Service
1945-08-02 1945 1940s 5 pages -3- Local Organisation - Joint Authorities The Ministers indicated on the 8th March that the White Paper proposal for Joint Authorities for the purpose of taking over the hospitals would be abandoned except in Scotland. In its place a Regional Council is proposed tog...
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2 August 1945
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| Summary: | 1945-08-02
1945
1940s
5 pages
-3- Local Organisation - Joint Authorities The Ministers indicated on the 8th March that the White Paper proposal for Joint Authorities for the purpose of taking over the hospitals would be abandoned except in Scotland. In its place a Regional Council is proposed together with area planning machinery within the regions. There are to be 10 regions each based on a University with a medical school. The Regional Council will be advisory in function and will be composed of members chosen as individual experts rather than representatives of each local area or organisation in the region. The constitution of the Council is to be a chairman and two members drawn from the University, four members from the medical profession, four members from the voluntary hospitals, four representing local authorities. Two of the University members, also one from the voluntary hospitals and one from the local authorities are to be medical, these together with four direct from the medical profession make eight medical people. It is likely that the Chairman will also be a medical professor from the University. This seems to overweight the Regional Council in favour of the medical profession. There is also the point that the medical clinicians drawn from the University will invariably be on the consultant staff of the voluntary hospital to which the medical school is attached so that in effect there will be six representatives of voluntary hospitals whereas local authorities will only have four. On the Area Planning Councils, the local authorities will have a majority. The job of that Council is to draw up a health plan for the whole area which is to be submitted to the Minister and also to the Regional Council. The Regional Council will co-ordinate the various area plans within the region and will be able to make representations to the Minister on them. A special hospital planning group including members drawn from the Planning Council will be set up to prepare that part of the plan dealing with hospitals. The Group will have equal numbers representing the local authority and voluntary hospitals and the profession in the area. The Regional Council will be closely in touch with the Hospital Planning Croups and when the hospital plan is prepared it will be submitted to the Area Planning Council for incorporation in the other part of the plan prepared by the Planning Council. The whole plan will then be submitted to the Minister and to the Regional Council as previously mentioned. Health Centres The White Paper proposed that local authorities should provide, equip and maintain health centres approved by the Minister and that a high place in the scheme would be given to a full and careful trial of the Health Centre method. The latest proposal is that the provision of Health Centres will be the subject of centrally controlled experiment with different types of Centres but they will be provided and maintained by the local authority. In Scotland, however, the centres will be centrally provided with powers to delegate those centres to the local authorities when suitable. Oh the question of Health Centres, the General Council said "experience will show the best lines on which the Centres should develop in order to fulfil the public need. Centres should therefore be set up wherever there is public demand for them and this will furnish the necessary experimental oasis for the complete development of such centres throughout the country." It is to be hoped that the Ministers' latest suggestion will be operated in accordance with public demand and not on a more restricted basis.
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