A National Health Service : The White Paper proposals in brief
1944 1944 1940s 32 pages child welfare clinics, however — concerned, as they are, not primarily with direct medical treatment but more with giving advice on the bringing-up of young children and the problems of motherhood — will not be transferred to the new joint authority, but...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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London : His Majesty's Staionery Office
1944
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child welfare clinics, however — concerned, as they are, not primarily with direct medical treatment but more with giving advice on the bringing-up of young children and the problems of motherhood — will not be transferred to the new joint authority, but will lie wherever the related functions of child education are made by Parliament to lie under the new Education Bill. Under the present proposals in that Bill, this will mean that the county and county borough councils will be the authorities primarily responsible, but that arrangements will be made in suitable cases for the delegadon of much of the pracdcal care of the service to some of the existing authorities, within the counties, which have hitherto carried the responsibility and have accumulated good experience and local interest. In Scotland there will be no change in the present arrangements for maternity and child welfare centres which are already being administered by the major local authorites in that country, the county councils and the town councils of the large burghs. School Medical Service For this service also the Government's proposals are related to the proposals in the Education Bill. It is contemplated that the education authorities will retain as part of their educational machinery the functions of inspection of children in the school group (the supervision, in fact, of the state of health in which the child attends school and of the effects of school life and activities on the child's health), together with the important function of using the influence of the school to ensure that the child receives any medical treatment he requires. But, as from the time when the new Health Service is able to take over its comprehensive care of health, the child will look for treatment to that service. Tuberculosis dispensaries and other infectious disease work The local tuberculosis dispensaries will in future be regarded as out-patient centres of the hospital and consultant services, and responsibility for them will normally rest directly with the new joint authority dealing with the whole of this aspect of the new service over its wider area. Similarly, isolation hospital responsibilities will pass to the new joint authority as part of the general hospital problem of its area. 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. Cancer centres Responsibility for the local centres of diagnosis and advice which were contemplated when the Cancer Act of 1939 was passed, but have 19
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