“…1946-01 1946 1940s 16 pages CONFIDENTIAL Proposals for a National Health Service [Note: Subject to a few modifications in detail, the proposals are applicable to Scotland as well as to England and Wales, and references to the Minister should be read in their application to Scotland as references to the Secretary of State.] …”

“…1946-01 1946 1940s 16 pages CONFIDENTIAL Proposals for a National Health Service [Note: Subject to a few modifications in detail, the proposals are applicable to Scotland as well as to England and Wales, and references to the Minister should be read in their application to Scotland as references to the Secretary of State.] …”

“…Principal officers of the Boards will be appointed by the Boards subject to the approval of the Minister. 9. Each Regional Board will be required to appoint, subject to the Minister's approval, a number of smaller local Hospital Management Committees. …”

“…The functions of existing welfare authorities which are not county or county borough councils will be transferred to the local health authorities, subject to some delegation of child welfare (para. 18 below). 17. …”

“…There will be some parts of the service, however, or supplements to the service, in which some payment by the patient will arise, as follows:- (a) Home Helps (paragraph 23 above) will be the subject of a charge according to the ability of the household to pay. …”

“…The provision of the above services (either directly or by arrangement in whole or in part with voluntary agencies) will be a statutory duty of the local health authorities; in addition they will be empowered to provide the following subject to Ministerial approval: (i) Home help services for households in time of sickness (j) Care and after care for the sick and those recovering from sickness. 14. …”

“…The ownership of the present public hospitals, voluntary and municipal, will be taken over by the Minister (subject to special arrangements in the case of the teaching hospitals, described in paragraph 12). …”

“…Local health authorities will be empowered to make arrangements subject to Ministerial approval for providing domestic help for households where help is needed owing to illness, the presence of an expectant or nursing mother or young child, or the presence of an aged or infirm person. …”