Joint Sub-Committee of the T.U.C., the Labour Party and the Co-operative Congress on the Government White Paper "A National Health Service" (minutes)
1944-09-05 1944 1940s 6 pages -2- and its complete co-ordination with the National Medical Service. It should also be recognised that the conditions under which the population live and work, education, housing, nutrition, water supplies, sanitation, and facilities for recreation, all have a marked...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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5 September 1944
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| Summary: | 1944-09-05
1944
1940s
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-2- and its complete co-ordination with the National Medical Service. It should also be recognised that the conditions under which the population live and work, education, housing, nutrition, water supplies, sanitation, and facilities for recreation, all have a marked effect upon health and are therefore very important medical questions. 4. GENERAL MEDICAL PRACTICE It is of course essential that there must be a sufficient supply of qualified practitioners to provide the service. Medical education should be free so as to enable the right people to take advantage of it. Educational facilities should be designed to ensure that no suitable candidate will be prevented from participation because of economic difficulties. Whilst the White Paper does not go so far as we would like in the direction of a complete State Medical Service, we appreciate that it is essential for the success of the scheme that it should have the goodwill of the medical profession. We think therefore that the proposals in the White Paper should be supported but we would like to emphasise the importance of administration if the scheme is to serve the high purpose for which it is intended. The standard of national service must be such as will ensure that not only will it not suffer by comparison with private practice but will be superior to it. It is therefore imperative that the new service in its remuneration, provision for study leave, superannuation, and general structure and administration will be such as to attract and retain the very best medical personnel. We agree that a person who desires to obtain medical service privately should be free to do so and general practitioners should be free to render such service on a private basis with access to hospital facilities at every level, but there must be definite safeguards to secure that such private patients
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