The labour movement and the hospital crisis
1922 1922 1920s 21 pages hospital should become the "Health Centre" of the district which it serves, and all medical activities should be gathered together within its walls. The hospital system would be but part of an organised public medical service, controlled and inspired by the...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
| Language: | English English |
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London ; published by the Trades Union Congress and the Labour Party
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hospital should become the "Health Centre" of the district which it serves, and all medical activities should be gathered together within its walls. The hospital system would be but part of an organised public medical service, controlled and inspired by the Ministry of Health, but administered by enlarged and reorganised local health authorities. It considers that the public medical service, including the hospital service, should be financed by the local health authorities, assisted by substantial grants-in-aid from the Ministry of Health, and should be free and open to all. Those who enjoy the blessings of good health would contribute through the rates towards those afflicted with ill-health or disease. NATIONAL HOSPITALS Teaching hospitals in London, Edinburgh, and other university towns which enjoy a national and even an international reputation and which draw their cases from all over the country, should be national in character, and should be maintained and administered directly by the Ministry of Health, and should not be a charge on the local rates; they should be the chief centres of medical education, and should be important centres of research, and should also receive unusually difficult cases requiring elaborate scientific investigation referred to them by the county or cottage hospitals. METROPOLITAN AREA In addition to the national hospitals there will be required in each Public Health area of Greater London a large central hospital, and several smaller hospitals, corresponding to the county hospitals and cottage hospitals described below. There must also be an adequate supply of treatment centres, especially in the more crowded districts. COUNTY HOSPITALS In every Public Health area there should be one or more large county hospitals, according to its geographical nature and the size of its population. Each should be fully equipped with surgical, medical, and special departments of all varieties, and manned with the necessary medical officers. They should not only serve the town in which they are situated, but should receive cases referred to them by the local cottage hospitals within the area, with which they should keep in close touch. The medical and surgical consultants and specialists should not only attend cases admitted to these hospitals, to which they are attached, but should act in a consultative capacity to the general practitioners within their area, visiting the local hospitals and patients in their homes at the request of general practitioners. LOCAL OR COTTAGE HOSPITALS In every town of about 6,000 inhabitants and over there should be a local cottage hospital, containing two beds for every 1,000 of the population. The staff should be composed of the general practitioners of the neighbourhood, and each member of the staff should be entitled to admit and attend his own cases. These hospitals should be in telephonic communication with the county hospitals, and arrangements should be made for the easy transference of patients from one to the other. The staff of the local hospital should have the right to advice and help from the staff of the county hospital, and should take a share in the treatment of such of their patients as are removed to the county hospitals. 13
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