“…The wealth or poverty of an individual becomes irrelevant to health care, as it should be. …”

“…The Executive Council will make agreed payments to the Local Health Authority for accommodation and other facilities provided at Health Centres for family doctors and will recover an appropriate sum from the individual doctors. 4 THE FAMILY DOCTOR AND HIS PATIENTS THE 'family practitioner services' — those of the family doctor, the dentist, the pharmacist, the ophthalmic doctor and the ophthalmic optician — have been outlined at the end of Chapter 1. …”

“…The Act aims at accomplishing this reform while fully maintaining the freedom of the individual. Members of the public can use the Service or not, as they wish ; use one complete part of it and not another ; and choose the family doctor whom they want. …”

“…Thousands of these well-wishers are helping to run local hospitals as members of the new management committees ; many more will serve as co-opted members on the many house committees (for individual hospitals) and committees for special purposes (such as the social life of hospitals and the welfare of patients) which management committees need to help them in their work. …”

“…Circumstances will no longer compel the leaders of the medical profession largely to confine their influence to the universities, the teaching hospitals, the largest cities, or the individual hospitals with which they are connected. …”

“…The purpose of the Health Service is to provide advice or medical care for the individual man, woman, and child in need of them. Its range includes everything from advice on infant feeding to the surgery of the brain and the treatment of rare diseases, from care of mental defectives to blood transfusion, iron lungs, and artificial limbs ; included also is all that goes with medical care, such as massage, the services of a midwife, treatment during convalescence, home nursing, use of ambulances, care of the eyes and teeth, drugs, special foods, spectacles, hearing aids, and so forth. …”

“…But when they are working individually in their own separate surgeries, some control must be continued in the early years. …”