Britain's Health Services
1942-10 1942 1940s 40 pages Checking up on absenteeism where due to sickness from overwork or defective conditions Reporting on aisles which are blocked, men and women at work without goggles, etc. Demanding an adequate Industrial Medical Service through the Management and through Trade Union organi...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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| Language: | English English |
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London : Communist Party of Great Britain
October 1942
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10796/91C8E453-4E39-442D-AD22-8B2562210C0D http://hdl.handle.net/10796/F2B73651-5D73-4C35-8FA1-C554B90EBE1D |
| Summary: | 1942-10
1942
1940s
40 pages
Checking up on absenteeism where due to sickness from overwork or defective conditions Reporting on aisles which are blocked, men and women at work without goggles, etc. Demanding an adequate Industrial Medical Service through the Management and through Trade Union organisations Finally, all health workers should recognise that up to now there has been gross indifference to the part that health plays in production and they must keep pegging away, quoting facts and arguments on every possible occasion, until the Labour movement begins to sit up and take notice. Not until this happens will health workers be entitled to feel that they have made a contribution on the Production Front, one of the most vital sectors in our fight against fascism. 2. EFFICIENCY IN THE HEALTH SERVICES No one with any knowledge of existing conditions can be complacent regarding the difficulties which we shall encounter in the achievement of this second main objective — increasing the efficiency of the health services to the highest possible degree. But we must give serious consideration to the ways and means by which this can be done. (a) Hospitals In this, the largest organised part of the Health Services, it is obvious that great demands will be made on every section of the staff when the Second Front is opened. All hospital arrangements should be sufficiently elastic to provide for a sudden and substantial increase of work. At the present moment many hospitals are only functioning at little over half capacity and yet are already faced with difficulties of staff shortage. We are told that 12,000 nurses are needed in civilian hospitals alone (Hansard 30.6.42), and though we know that this deficiency is definitely aggravated by conditions of employment, particularly as regards living-in conditions and wage rates, the remedy is not only to be sought by improvements in this direction and better methods of recruitment, nor even by conscription. 11
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