Proposals for a National Health Service
1946-01 1946 1940s 16 pages Local Clinic, Domiciliary and Welfare Services 13. This part of the service will be the direct function of local health authorities - of the county and county borough councils or combinations of them - and will include:- (a) School medical services. (b) Maternity and...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
| Language: | English English |
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[c. January 1946]
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| Summary: | 1946-01
1946
1940s
16 pages
Local Clinic, Domiciliary and Welfare Services 13. This part of the service will be the direct function of local health authorities - of the county and county borough councils or combinations of them - and will include:- (a) School medical services. (b) Maternity and child welfare (in co-operation with the hospital service on the specialist side). (c) Domiciliary midwifery. (d) Health visiting. (e) Home nursing services. (f) Vaccination and immunisation services. (g) A general ambulance service. (h) The provision and maintenance of Health Centres, Dental Centres, and similar local premises as bases for the Family Practitioner service (to be described later). The provision of the above services (either directly or by arrangement in whole or in part with voluntary agencies) will be a statutory duty of the local health authorities; in addition they will be empowered to provide the following subject to Ministerial approval: (i) Home help services for households in time of sickness (j) Care and after care for the sick and those recovering from sickness. 14. The administrative machinery for these services will be the normal machinery of local government with the addition of a statutory health committee to which all questions relating to these services will be referred. The general nature of the services is outlined below. It is proposed that local authority expenditure on these services should be assisted by Exchequer grant. In order to ensure the related planning of the health service as a whole, the local authorities will be required to submit for Ministerial approval the general arrangements they propose for providing the various statutory services; (in the case of the School Medical Service the approval will continue to be that of the Minister of Education). (a) School Medical Service. 15. This is already provided for in the Education Act, 1944. The ultimate object will be to make unnecessary the provision of medical treatment by the school /services
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