National Health Service : [meeting with Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health] (report)
1946-01-08 1946 1940s 3 pages (b) The distribution of medical practices would be controlled by a negative machinery based on consent by a central body rather than on positive direction. (c) The Government had decided not to prohibit private practice. The effect of any such prohibition might be that...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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8 January 1946
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| Summary: | 1946-01-08
1946
1940s
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(b) The distribution of medical practices would be controlled by a negative machinery based on consent by a central body rather than on positive direction. (c) The Government had decided not to prohibit private practice. The effect of any such prohibition might be that too many doctors would stay out of the national service altogether and a black market might spring up. No doctor in the public service would, however, be allowed to charge fees to the patients on his own list. On the industrial health service, the Minister said that he agreed that reforms and developments were desirable, and the question would be taken up. But reorganisation could not be effected immediately, since the working-out of the necessary changes would take time, and it would delay the main scheme to await the result. Everything would be done from the outset to ensure close coordination, both centrally and locally, between the industrial and the general health services. In reply to questions from Mr. Allen, Mr. Smyth, Dr. Gordon Ward and other representatives, the Minister made the following points:- (1) Neither individual patients nor voluntary hospitals would be allowed to contract out of the scheme. (2) The ultimate ideal was the establishment of health centres in every local health authority's area, but the service must necessarily be developed progressively. (3) Doctors would be allowed to practise part-time in the public service and to engage in private practice at the same time, but so far as their public practice was concerned they would have to accept all the terms of the public service. They would not be allowed to see their private patients at the health centres. (4) The system of basic part-salaries would apply to general practice within the service, whether or not it was carried on from health centres. Special arrangements would have to be made for special cases. (5) The pharmaceutical service would be available both in health centres and through retail chemists as at present. He would consider the possibility of qualified dispensers employed by multiple companies being allowed to be represented on the Executive Councils. -2-
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