Proposals for a National Health Service
1946-01 1946 1940s 16 pages driving all private work into a rival nursing home service and to encourage the fullest association of the specialists with their hospitals in all their professional activities. General Position of the Patient, in summary. 48. Under the arrangements described everybody...
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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
driving all private work into a rival nursing home service and to encourage the fullest association of the specialists with their hospitals in all their professional activities. General Position of the Patient, in summary. 48. Under the arrangements described everybody will then be entitled to the following health facilities:- (1) A personal or family doctor, of their own choice, working in a publicly provided and equipped health centre, (or, during the transition period, from his own surgery), and undertaking the whole care of the patient in his home or at the centre, as the case may require, together with all necessary drugs, etc. (2) Through the family doctor, a full range of hospital, sanatorium, convalescent and rehabilitation services (including any necessary appliances) in a hospital scheme nationally provided - together with a full range of specialist "second opinions" and care, in the hsopitals [hospitals], in the health centres and at his home. (3) Nursing in his home - provided through the local health authority - whenever the case requires it, and domestic help in homes where sickness makes this necessary. (4) Special dental and eye services (including dentures and spectacles). (5) A full maternity service - pre-natal care, domiciliary or institutional midwifery and post-natal care - with specialist resources behind it. (6) Health visiting in all appropriate cases. (7) Child welfare services and school medical services. (8) An Ambulance service, from home to hospital, from hospital to hospital, from accident to hospital. (9) Vaccination and immunisation against infectious diseases. (10) Various forms of supplementary care and after-care in time of sickness.
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