Essentials for a health service
1946 1946 1940s 12 pages nursing means overwork, underpay, unsatisfactory living conditions with petty restrictions, and an inadequate status for such highly trained personnel. We agree with the Horder Report that there is no danger of over-recruitment. 3. Administrative Machinery IN designing suita...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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| Language: | English English |
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London : Communist Party
1946
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1946
1940s
12 pages
nursing means overwork, underpay, unsatisfactory living conditions with petty restrictions, and an inadequate status for such highly trained personnel. We agree with the Horder Report that there is no danger of over-recruitment. 3. Administrative Machinery IN designing suitable machinery for the National Health Service, we believe that two main criteria must be satisfied. Firstly, the machinery must be capable of being quickly established. Secondly, the health services must be planned and administered by the people in a democratic way. We have welcomed the statement that the reconstruction of the health services is an early priority, and that the National Health Service Bill will be introduced during this Session and should be in operation within the lifetime of the present Parliament. There is no need to wait for the complete overhaul and reform of local government before setting up a health service. Neither does this urgency allow time for experiment, so it would be unwise to introduce entirely new and untried methods. The machinery will as far as possible have to be adapted from, and engrafted upon, the present local government machine, but with the full realisation that local government will be asked to tackle much wider and much more important health functions than have been entrusted to them in the past. Therefore in carrying out these tasks they will need firm central guidance from the Minister of Health as to the standards that must be achieved, and all the expert help that can be given at all levels. Local government, properly advised, need not be a hindrance to the development of the Service. Nevertheless, safeguards will need to be introduced to ensure that obstruction or sabotage does not succeed, whether it comes from reactionary forces in local government, from professional associations or from voluntary hospitals. It must be recognised that these groups will all have their parts to play in the new Service; opportunity must be given them for constructive co-operation, but if they disagree, the Minister of Health's final and binding decision will be called for without delay. We believe that the outline suggested in the White Paper could well form the starting point of the administrative plan. Some 10
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