A full medical service for all : BMA's national plan
1938-04 1938 1930s 3 pages FOR PUBLICATION NOT BEFORE FRIDAY, APRIL 29. Marginal numbers refer to the paragraphs in the enclosed Supplement to the British Medical Journal. A FULL MEDICAL SERVICE FOR ALL B.M.A's National Plan A Co-ordinated Health Policy Para. 19 A scheme which would extend...
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| Summary: | 1938-04
1938
1930s
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FOR PUBLICATION NOT BEFORE FRIDAY, APRIL 29. Marginal numbers refer to the paragraphs in the enclosed Supplement to the British Medical Journal. A FULL MEDICAL SERVICE FOR ALL B.M.A's National Plan A Co-ordinated Health Policy Para. 19 A scheme which would extend the medical service provided under National Health Insurance to an extra eighteen to twenty million people, and vastly increase the scope of the service given, is published by the British Medical Association in to-day's issue of "The British Medical Journal". The proposals are put forward, it is stated, with a view to their being implemented "at no distant date". They would result in the biggest change in the medical services of this country since the introduction of National Health Insurance in 1911. THE SCHEME IN BRIEF The main effects of the scheme would be as follows:- Para. 46 1. Inclusion of every member of every family within an income limit of £250 a year in the health insurance system. Paras. 52-55 2. Extension of the system to provide the services not only of a family doctor, but of every type of medical consultant and specialist, as the needs of the patient might dictate. Full dental and ophthalmic services would also be included. Paras. 47-48 3. Provision of a precisely similar service for those in receipt of Public Assistance. Paras. 64-74 4. Establishment of a complete maternity service based on the provision of a family doctor and a certified midwife in every case, with "home helps" to relieve the mother of hoursehold [household] troubles during the lying-in period, and the gynaecological specialist in reserve to deal with complicated cases. Paras. 75-83 Other recommendations include the grouping of hospitals on a regional basis to avoid overlapping and to enable gaps in existing provision to be
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