A health service for the nation
1943-03-27 1943 1940s 8 pages 15. We believe that this country is unique in having genuinely popularised its health teaching services, especially in the homes of the people, and we believe that any attempt to merge this branch of the National Health Service with the curative branch would be a retrog...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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| Language: | English English |
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London : published by the Women Public Health Officers' Association
27 March 1943
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| Summary: | 1943-03-27
1943
1940s
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15. We believe that this country is unique in having genuinely popularised its health teaching services, especially in the homes of the people, and we believe that any attempt to merge this branch of the National Health Service with the curative branch would be a retrograde step. We suggest complete co-operation without loss of identity. 16. We suggest that each of these branches of the National Health Service shall have its central focal point and that each shall work through local Centres. 17. We believe that the focal centre of the Environmental, Preventive and Health Education service should be the Regional Health Office, in which administrative action affecting other branches of the public service, e.g. housing, can be taken and vital statistics compiled, as at present. 18. We suggest that the focal centre of the Curative Services shall be the Regional General Hospital.* 19. We recommend that there shall be two kinds of Health Centres :— I. LOCAL HEALTH CENTRES, regarded primarily as Centres for preventive and educational health work, with facilities for medical and dental examination, diagnosis and treatment for which elaborate equipment is not required. II. DIVISIONAL CLINICS OR TREATMENT CENTRES, largely replacing the present Out-Patient Departments of hospitals and School Treatment Centres (other than minor ailment centres) under the direct supervision of the Consultant Staff of the Regional Hospital and with the Regional Hospital as its focal point. Each of these Divisional Treatment Centres should co-operate closely with a number of Local Health Centres in its vicinity. LOCAL HEALTH CENTRES. 20. TWO-FOLD FUNCTION. In addition to providing accommodation for the work of the existing Maternity and Child Welfare Centres, and for dental and medical inspections of school children, accommodation should be provided in the Local Health Centres for salaried Home Doctors (replacing the present insurance and Poor Law practitioners) to see their patients in the doctors' rooms. We suggest that this part of the Local Health Centres should not be more elaborately equipped than are the surgeries of the present-day general practitioners. Patients requiring X Ray examinations or laboratory tests should be referred to the Divisional Clinic or Treatment Centre. * Hospitals for certain kinds of mental and infectious illness will also be required. Four
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