Resolution Adopted at the Annual Delegate Meeting, 27-29th May, 1944
1944-06-07 1944 1940s 1 page G.126/44. 7/6/44. THE ASSOCIATION OF SCIENTIFIC WORKERS Hanover House, 73 High Holborn, London, W.C.1. RESOLUTION ADOPTED AT THE ANNUAL DELEGATE MEETING, 27-29th May, 1944. "Council welcomes the proposals of the White Paper on a National Health Service as a gre...
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G.126/44. 7/6/44. THE ASSOCIATION OF SCIENTIFIC WORKERS Hanover House, 73 High Holborn, London, W.C.1. RESOLUTION ADOPTED AT THE ANNUAL DELEGATE MEETING, 27-29th May, 1944. "Council welcomes the proposals of the White Paper on a National Health Service as a great advance towards the provision of a comprehensive service available on equal terms to all members of the community. It particularly welcomes the proposal to establish adequately equipped Health Centres which will provide better facilities for the practice of scientific medicine and the possibility of collecting valuable data for research. Council however regrets (a) that practitioners employed in the service should be allowed to practise privately as this may lead the public to suppose that the service provided by practitioners in their private capacity has some advantage over that provided by them when employed by the State; (b) the failure to provide a national industrial medical service. Factories are an important part of the environment of the population and the prevention of ill-health in the community demands co-ordination of this service with domiciliary practice; (c) that there is no recognition of the value of the Emergency Laboratory Service nor any indication of the degree to which these Laboratories will be continued and developed in the new service; (d) that it is not recognised that it should be the responsibility of the Medical Research Council to survey the health of the community and initiate research on problems so revealed. In particular it is regretted that no mention has been made of any intention to provide the Medical Research Council with sufficient funds to fulfil the duties laid on it by Royal Charter, namely, to guide, stimulate and co-ordinate research; (e) that although the proposed national medical service will require a greatly increased supply of thoroughly trained medical practitioners of both sexes, together with workers in allied sciences and skilled technicians, there are no suggestions as to how this need is to be met; (f) that there is no indication of any intention to profit from the experience gained in the Services during this war in promoting the maximum mental and physical fitness of the individual to do his work and enjoy his life. It instructs the Executive Committee to publicise widely the views of the Association in this matter. It draws attention to the request by the Minister of Health that the White Paper should be widely discussed, and urges the branches and groups of the Association to hold meetings on the White Paper and to put their wishes to the appropriate Trades Councils and to the Medical Sciences Sub-committee of the Association." RF/EL
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