“…Not enough has been found out, by trial and error, to determine the conditions under which individual doctors can best collaborate or the extent to which in the long run the public will prefer the group system. …”

“…The exact allocation of responsibility between the joint authority and the individual county and county borough councils will be finally settled in each case in the approved area plan; but the principle will be that services belonging to the hospital and consultant sphere will fall to the joint authority while other local and clinic services will fall to the individual councils. …”

“…Inspection of Hospitals Apart from special inspections to enquire into difficulties that have arisen or changes that are in contemplation, routine inspections at not too frequent intervals will serve the double purpose of bringing to notice defects of organisation or management and, what is equally important, of enabling individual hospitals to be kept in touch with the latest practice and ideas. …”

“…The newly developing use — started during the war — of the help of individual general practitioners to supplement the work of the clinics lends some point to this. …”

“…The preparation of this plan has been referred to already in the description of the arrangements for the hospital and other individual services. But the intention is that the plan shall cover, not merely 22 36/H24/41…”

“…(h) Young doctors entering individual practice in the public service 30 36/H24/41…”

“…The design of a Health Centre will provide for individual consulting-rooms, reception and waiting-rooms, simple laboratory work, nursing and secretarial staff, telephone services and other accessories, as well as — in varying degree according to circumstances — dark rooms, facilities for minor surgery and other ancillaries. …”

“…The Board will in each case be the "employer" of the doctors who take part in the new service and it is consequently with the Board that the individual doctor will be in contract, whether he is engaged in separate practice or in group or Health Centre practice. …”

“…They would hold that if they became salaried servants — whether of the State or of local authorities — they would lose their professional freedom and be fettered in the exercise of their individual skill. Other doctors, with an equal right to be heard, would welcome a salaried service, believing that it would relieve them from business anxieties and enable them to devote themselves more freely to the practice of their profession. …”

“…The abolition would involve great practical difficulty and is not essential to the working of the new service, and the Government intend to discuss the whole matter further with the profession, including any measures which may be needed to prevent the operation of the new public service from itself increasing the capital value of an individual practice, and therefore also the compensation which may later have to be paid. …”

“…There will also be need for some control over the discretion of individual hospital authorities in making appointments to senior clinical posts. …”