The organisation of the preventative and curative medical services and hospital and laboratory systems under a Ministry of Health
1919 1919 1910s 18 pages THE TRANSITION STAGE. This Committee recognises that it may be impossible to carry into effect the whole scheme herein suggested at once, but it considers that immediate progress might be made in the following ways, some of which would require legislation : — 1. By...
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THE TRANSITION STAGE. This Committee recognises that it may be impossible to carry into effect the whole scheme herein suggested at once, but it considers that immediate progress might be made in the following ways, some of which would require legislation : — 1. By the transference of the administration of the medical benefits of the National Insurance Act from the Insurance Commissioners to the Ministry of Health, and through the Ministry of Health, to the local Health Authorities — as recommended in this Committee's previous report. 2. By the provision of really "adequate medical treatment" by the appointment of medical and surgical consultants, specialists and dentists, by providing X-ray and pathological facilities, and, as quickly as may be, sufficient hospital accommodation. 3. By making the provision of medical benefits a charge on public funds. In connection with these necessary changes, the county Health Authorities, in conjunction with the Ministry of Health, should separately, or in combination, appoint the following medical officers : — (a) Whole-time salaried pathologists and hygienists, making immediate arrangements for laboratory accommodation. (b) Consultants and specialists, who, as far as possible, should be whole-time salaried officers. (c) General medical practitioners in the proportion of at least one to every 3,500 of the population in urban districts and at least one to every 2,000 in rural districts. All competent practitioners should be given the option of joining the service, either as whole-time or part-time officers. The terms for service should be fair and generous, including compensation for loss of private practice where incurred and provision for retirement under a superannuation scheme. (d) A sufficient number of dentists, midwives, nurses, and dispensers, all of whom should devote their whole time to the service and be remunerated by salary. 2. Organise at once as many treatment centres as may be necessary to meet the needs of their respective areas. 3. Put in hand at once the provision of the necessary hospital accommodation by: — (a) making arrangements for complete or partial use of existing voluntary hospitals; (b) acquiring and remodelling existing Poor Law infirmaries; (c) arranging to take over some of the existing temporary military hospitals directly they are no longer required for military purposes; (d) new construction. 10
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