The People's Health
1932-07 1932 1930s 24 pages two types of doctor. It indicates that the conditions of service — the atmosphere of co-operation rather than competition — of the specialists are more favourable. A greater output of research work as well as better work generally is to be expected fro...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
| Language: | English English |
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London : The Labour Party
July 1932
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| Summary: | 1932-07
1932
1930s
24 pages
two types of doctor. It indicates that the conditions of service — the atmosphere of co-operation rather than competition — of the specialists are more favourable. A greater output of research work as well as better work generally is to be expected from the future State practitioner working in full accord with his fellows. And because this is to be expected of him, he must be given freedom — freedom to adopt his own methods of treatment, freedom from lay interference in his medical work, freedom from too many clerical duties, which latter should be entrusted to a secretary. Facilities must also be provided to make easy the passage from one branch of the service to another for those who desire a change and show capacity for new duties. Moreover, while increasing specialisation is inevitable, it is essential to provide variety of work and duties, so that the doctor does not become a mere machine. And lastly the conditions of service, such as pay, pension, holidays and study leave, must be sufficiently good to attract the best medical men and women to the services and young people of ability to the profession. (B) The Ideal Health Service The object of the Medical Service of the future will be to put every advance of modern medical science and specialist treatment as well as skilled nursing freely within the reach of all. The Service must be so efficient and so well organised that everyone, rich and poor alike, will be ready to take advantage of it. Administration. The Health Service of the future will be administered by local authorities, supervised by the Ministry of Health, which will have charge of all the health activites [activities] of the nation. The Ministry must, however, use to a much fuller extent than at present, the powers that it possesses for compelling reactionary local authorities to carry out their statutory duties, and many duties that are now optional must become obligatory. The unit of local administration must be large. The ideal unit would appear to be a regional one, consisting of one or more large towns with the district around each for about ten or twenty miles in all directions. Unless, however, considerable changes in local government take place, the administration of such a unit would present such difficulties that it would be better to create for health purposes a new authority by taking the County, including all county boroughs and other local government areas contained therein as the unit. For administrative purposes small counties could co-operate either completely or for special purposes and larger ones could be divided. 7
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