The organisation of the preventative and curative medical services and hospital and laboratory systems under a Ministry of Health
1919 1919 1910s 18 pages 8. Consequently it is only by means of a public medical service, free and open to all, that the health of the individual can be preserved, disease prevented, epidemics controlled, and the physical welfare of the community promoted. In making the service free and open to all,...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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London : Co-operative Printing Society
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8. Consequently it is only by means of a public medical service, free and open to all, that the health of the individual can be preserved, disease prevented, epidemics controlled, and the physical welfare of the community promoted. In making the service free and open to all, means must be provided whereby there may be the fullest possible co-operation and mutual help between all practitioners in a given area (co-operation and competition cannot go hand in hand), a good distribution of doctors according to the needs of each locality; a proper regulation of the hours of work and adequate holidays for all doctors. Every doctor must also have adequate "study-leave" in order to revisit centres of learning at home or abroad, so as to keep himself abreast with the advance of knowledge and with modern methods of diagnosis and treatment. Further, all medical men must be in a position to give unbiased advice in all matters of importance to the public health, and divided interests between public and private work must be prevented. PATH II. THE SCHEME. GENERAL. 1. The public medical services should be free and open to all sufferers irrespective of their financial or social position. 2. The service should be so organised as to attract to the profession the best brains of the community. 3. The scale of remuneration should be adequate to the importance of the services rendered, and there should be compensation for any disturbance of office, and a reasonable pension on retirement. 4. There should be effective safeguards against the oppression of public medical officers for the faithful execution of their duties. PRINCIPAL MEDICAL OFFICERS 5. In each local health area there should be a "principal medical officer" selected for his scientific and organising capacities from any branch of the service. 6. Under the Principal Medical Officer there shall be a "Chief Clinical Medical Officer" and a "Chief Public Health Medical Officer" of equal pay and status, selected from their respective branches for their scientific and organising capacities. 7. To each sub-committee set up by the local Health Committee for dealing with specific matters, such as mental disorders, sanitation, housing and factory conditions, maternity, and child welfare, sanatoria, hospitals, pensions, or domiciliary treatment there shall be appointed a whole-time Chief Medical Officer, who shall be responsible for the whole of the work covered by the sub-committee to which he is appointed. 8. A whole-time Industrial Health Service, of officers not engaged in private practice, shall replace the present "certifying surgeons." MEDICAL STAFF. 9. The duties of the preventive staff should be those connected with preventive medicine generally in the area, such as the compiling of vital statistics, the prevention of the spread of infectious diseases, and investigation and research into the causes of preventive diseases. 7
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