The Health Services White Paper : The Labour Party's policy
1944-09 1944 1940s 22 pages - 3 - (a) In areas which already have too many doctors, new doctors will not be permitted to set up in public practice. (b) In areas where there are too few doctors, new doctors wishing to set up in public practice may be required to devote their whole time to it for a...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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| Language: | English English |
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September 1944
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10796/F68F2682-433E-4608-B53A-72134A4830A0 http://hdl.handle.net/10796/91BBFB83-CA7D-4E4B-A41D-A8EEC896F652 |
| Summary: | 1944-09
1944
1940s
22 pages
- 3 - (a) In areas which already have too many doctors, new doctors will not be permitted to set up in public practice. (b) In areas where there are too few doctors, new doctors wishing to set up in public practice may be required to devote their whole time to it for a few years. There are the essential proposals of the White Paper. If the service is to be a success, they must go through without modification. They may be summed up thus: Universality: Efficient planning: Public responsibility. III. The Administration The administration which the White Paper proposes is most complicated. It has some excellent features, but some bad ones, which bear the marks of compromise. The administration becomes much easier to understand if it is realised what lies behind it. There were probably three points in the minds of the Government when the paper was being written:- 1. The need for large health areas. If the public is to have a really good hospital and specialist service, that is, if people are to be really well treated when they are seriously ill, it is essential to have specialists who really do specialise. It is no good expecting any doctor to be able to do operations, especially the more complicated ones. It is no good, even, expecting every surgeon to be able to operate on everything. If they are to get the best results, surgeons themselves must specialise. So each member of the community must have available not merely a general practitioner and a surgeon or specialist, but a whole team of surgeons and specialists; and each surgeon or specialist must spend his whole time on his specialist work. Otherwise his skill will not be as good as it might be. But only a large community can keep a team of specialists fully occupied. This is why large health areas are an essential for an efficient hospital and specialist service. There is another good reason why they are essential. Hospital and specialist services are needed alike in town and country. But country services must be based on hospitals in towns. So the old local government lines of demarcation between town and country must be broken down as far as these services are concerned. The Labour Party is in full agreement with the White Paper proposal for new large health areas. It regards these as in essential for an efficient hospital and specialist service.
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