“…The plan will be submitted to the Minister for approval, and when approved it will determine how the needs, of the area in terms of general practice, hospitals, consultants, clinics and all other necessary services are to be met and will define, subject to the principles laid down, the responsibilities of the various authorities. …”

“…(a) The scope and objects of the service will be the same in Scotland as in England and Wales, but subject to certain differences due to special circumstances and the geography and existing local government structure in Scotland. …”

“…This will be in accord with the principle, declared by the Royal Commission on Mental Disorder, that the treatment of mental disorder should approximate as nearly to the treatment of physical ailments as is consistent with the special safeguards which are indispensable when the liberty of the subject is infringed. Hospitals for infectious disease In the counties isolation hospitals for infectious diseases are with few exceptions owned and administered by the minor authorities and not by the county councils, and their transfer to the new joint authority will mean that their present owners will give up ownership without retaining even the part interest which membership of the new joint authority will afford in the case of hospitals belonging to county and county borough councils. …”

“…But many of the measures dealing with the notification of diseases and the local control of the spread of infection, which are already the subject of statutory powers under the Public Health Acts, can still be suitably carried out locally in the different parts of the joint authority's area, although most of these activities will probably in future have to be centred in the county and county borough councils rather than distributed more widely, as they are now, among the minor authorities. …”

“…The Government fully recognise the importance and urgency of reaching an understanding upon them and they think it right to put forward their general proposals on the subject. Remuneration. As a mere problem of administration there would be no insuperable difficulty in devising a system under which all doctors engaged in public practice would be remunerated by salary. …”

“…The tendency in the modern development of medicine and surgery is towards specialist centres — for radio-therapy and neurosis, for example — and no one hospital can be equally equipped and developed to suit all needs, or to specialise equally in all subjects. The time has come when the hospital services have to be planned as a wider whole, with the object of securing that each case shall be referred, not necessarily to the particular hospital which happens to be "local," but to whatever hospital can offer the most up-to-date technique for that kind of case. …”