Proposals for a National Health Service
1946-01 1946 1940s 16 pages (e) Home Nursing 21. A new duty will be put upon the local health authorities to make sufficient provision in their areas for the attendance of properly qualified nurses on people who require nursing in their own homes - usually on the recommendation of the family doctor...
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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
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(e) Home Nursing 21. A new duty will be put upon the local health authorities to make sufficient provision in their areas for the attendance of properly qualified nurses on people who require nursing in their own homes - usually on the recommendation of the family doctor service. (f) Vaccination and immunisation. 22. Local health authorities will be given a new duty to make arrangements, to the Minister's satisfaction, for anyone in their area to be able to be vaccinated against smallpox or immunised against diphtheria. They will have power to do the same for other diseases, and a duty to do so if the Minister so requires. They will normally do this by arrangements wilh [with] the general practitioners of the area. The present law on compulsory vaccination will be repealed. (g) Ambulance Services. 23. The local health authorities will be given the duty of providing an adequate ambulance service for the use of the inhabitants of their areas, but with provision for the vehicles to undertake all necessary inter-area journeys without regard to boundaries. (The hospital service will itself provide certain hospital transport, but it will in the main look to arrangements with the local health authorities for its ambulance services). (h) Health Centres. 24. The functions of the local authorities in this connection are dealt with under the Family Practitioner Services below. (i) Home Helps 25. Local health authorities will be empowered to make arrangements subject to Ministerial approval for providing domestic help for households where help is needed owing to illness, the presence of an expectant or nursing mother or young child, or the presence of an aged or infirm person. (j) Care and After-Care. 26. Local health authorities will be empowered to make such supplementary arrangements as the Minister may approve (not including cash payments) for the better care or welfare of persons suffering from, or having suffered from, sickness or injury (e.g. after-care of mental patients, additional nourishment or bedding in tuberculous cases). /Family
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