The People's Health
1932-07 1932 1930s 24 pages more widely open and scholarships and maintenance allowances must be provided from Public Funds. Every doctor in the public service should be encouraged to carry our [out] research work and the amount of routine work allotted to him should be so arranged that except in em...
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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
more widely open and scholarships and maintenance allowances must be provided from Public Funds. Every doctor in the public service should be encouraged to carry our [out] research work and the amount of routine work allotted to him should be so arranged that except in emergency he has sufficient time at his disposal. Moreover, his status and advancement should depend to some extent on the value of the research work pathological or clinical, which he has carried out. In addition there will be a research department of the Ministry of Health with its own laboratories in which investigations will be carried out at the request of the Minister. The Ministry will also have power to make grants for the full cost of approved research work carried out in County Laboratories. (C) The Necessary Legislative and Administrative Steps It may now be useful to consider what legislative and administrative steps will probably be necessary for the establishment of the ideal Medical Service briefly outlined in the foregoing section. It would of course be possible to establish such a Service de novo without any consideration of the existing provision for the medical needs of the populace. In that case the existing services would have to be got rid of as they would be superfluous. It is difficult, however, to conceive any circumstances under which such a method would be applicable, for however great the emergency, we are much more likely to achieve our end by addition to and modification of those services which are worth preserving, while getting rid of those that are inferior and superfluous. In other words it seems likely that the ideal service will be developed by evolution and transformation of existing services and especially by unification in both central and local administration. It will be clear from what has preceded that a single health unit at the centre, i.e., the Ministry of Health, working in conjunction with a single unit at the periphery, i.e., in local areas, is the ideal to be aimed at. Unfortunately at the present time all health activites [activities] are not controlled by a single department of State, the Ministry of Health. We have in fact, not only special health services for the Army, Navy, Flying Corps, and a Ministry of Pensions, still concerned to some extent with Health matters, but also a Home Office in control of the care of inebriates, the drug traffic, the health of prisoners, and the administration of the Factory Acts. It is especially important that the Factory Health Service should no longer be separated from the general health administration of the nation. It is desirable also that the increasingly 14
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