Britain's Health Services
1942-10 1942 1940s 40 pages Dental: Private Practitioners 14,000 Domiciliary Nursing: District Nurses 8,000 Health Visitors 4,000 12,000 Pharmacists: Mostly retail 18,000 Sundry: Social Workers, Sanitary Inspectors, Public Health Administrative workers, Laboratory Technicians (Public Heal...
| 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/10796/3B88125E-BB79-4C7F-BC4D-9DCA14F0CB07 http://hdl.handle.net/10796/A8306A8C-6E88-44A9-B41E-4769064EF7B3 |
| Summary: | 1942-10
1942
1940s
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Dental: Private Practitioners 14,000 Domiciliary Nursing: District Nurses 8,000 Health Visitors 4,000 12,000 Pharmacists: Mostly retail 18,000 Sundry: Social Workers, Sanitary Inspectors, Public Health Administrative workers, Laboratory Technicians (Public Health Departments) 10,000 88,000 6. PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS FOR HEALTH WORKERS There are numerous professional Associations catering for health workers, but the principal ones are those connected with the Medical, Dental and Nursing professions, membership being:— British Medical Association (B.M.A.) 37,000 College of Nursing, Senior body 30,000 „ „ „ Student Nurses Association 17,000 - 47,000 British Dental Association 6,000 Incorporated Dental Society} Public Dental Association } 8,000 14,000 The British Medical Association has been described as "a federation of local medical societies termed Divisions, which are grouped together for certain administrative and scientific purposes into Branches. Once a year, or more often if a special necessity arises, representatives of each Division meet as a Representative Body, which has been described as the Doctors' Parliament" (P.E.P. "Report on British Health Services.") The B.M.A. is a powerful body which has not only concerned itself with securing adequate rates of pay and conditions of service for doctors, but has had no small influence in the shaping of national policy on such questions as N.H.I., Nutrition, Fractures, Physical Education, etc. At present there is widespread discussion in the Association (through " study groups " officially initiated for the purpose) on a variety of topics connected with the reorganisation of the health services. These study groups form invaluable media for re-enlivening the B.M.A., and for promoting consideration of immediate issues. 34
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