National Health Service Bill
1946-04 1946 1940s 10 pages - 7 - 43. Endowments. Although the endowments of the teaching hospitals are not to be transferred to regional pools, they are to be transferred to the new Boards of Governors which are to be appointed for them by the Minister, and whose duty it will be "to mana...
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| Summary: | 1946-04
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- 7 - 43. Endowments. Although the endowments of the teaching hospitals are not to be transferred to regional pools, they are to be transferred to the new Boards of Governors which are to be appointed for them by the Minister, and whose duty it will be "to manage and control the hospitals on behalf of the Minister" [Sec. 12(3)]. 44. General Financing. Like all other hospitals, for the general financing of their services the teaching hospitals will look to the exchequer with the inevitable accompanying restrictions on initiative and effective control, [White Paper Para.27] but they will receive monies direct from the Exchequer and not through the Regional Boards [Sec. 54(I) (b)]. 45. The general purport of many of the suggestions in these notes applies also to the teaching hospitals but, in so far as special provisions relate to them, further suggestions as to amendments will be put forward in due course. SPECIAL HOSPITALS 46. In the regionalisation of hospital services special attention will need to be paid to the position of a number of the voluntary special hospitals which are acknowledged to be national institutions. GROUPING OF HOSPITALS 47. The principle of grouping hospitals is not in itself objectionable but: the formation of the group must be such as to retain local interest and entity; provision must be made for a Committee to have effective internal control of each unit within the group. In the case of groups of teaching hospitals special considerations will probably arise. THE VALUE OF RETAINING THE VOLUNTARY HOSPITALS 48. The contribution the voluntary hospitals can make to a National Health Service is best judged by a brief review of their past and present achievement and of their attitude to future developments. Past 49. Until comparatively recent times the voluntary hospitals alone undertook the self-imposed task of treating the sick poor; later by natural processes of evolution they developed the present system of medical education and nurse training. Present 50. They have become the corner stone of the hospital services of the country. They are the source from which practically every major discovery in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness has so far been made and, while they would claim no monopoly of sympathy and a human approach to the patient, these qualities are the product of their system and methods over the centuries. 51. Independent and autonomous institutions, they have been intimately linked with the community whose needs they serve.
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