State Medical Service
1943-03-17 1943 1940s 3 pages PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL 17th March, 1943 TRADES UNION CONGRESS STATE MEDICAL SERVICE Memorandum by Dr. H.B. Morgan, M.P. 1. Assumption B of the Beveridge Social Security Scheme envisages the establishment of "comprehensive Health and Rehabilitation se...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL 17th March, 1943 TRADES UNION CONGRESS STATE MEDICAL SERVICE Memorandum by Dr. H.B. Morgan, M.P. 1. Assumption B of the Beveridge Social Security Scheme envisages the establishment of "comprehensive Health and Rehabilitation services for (a) prevention and cure of disease, and (b) restoration of capacity for work, available to all members of the community". No details of the organisation of such an extensive service are outlined in the Report. 2. Such a National Health Service, available on equal terms to all members of the community without distinction, free, universal with the highest professional skill and advice and best appropriate treatment for every type of case covers a vast field, more extensive even than that of the social and allied services and their unification. 3. Such a Health Service embraces not only the actual provision of medical services, through the varied types of professional workers, with adequate planning, preferably on regional lines, and with a central unified administration through a central Health Department, representatively controlled, but practically every problem in social medicine that affects the health of the Nation, such as Housing, Nutrition, National Dietaries and Dietetics, the influence of Industry on Health, Medical Education, Social Environment etc. 4. The present Health Administration and services are chaotic and disorganised, scattered through many Government Departments, and any adequate reorganisation will entail proper planning so that each section may be linked up to others, each occupying its appropriate niche in a co-ordinated scheme, locally, regionally and nationally. 5. The present Health institutions will have to be reorganised, so as to secure economical unified control. 6. Certain well defined principles on which any democratic Health National Scheme must be based should be stated clearly. (a) The primary aim should be the Prevention of Disease or Disability. This means a concentration on Health, its maintenance and upkeep, in Health Centres where facilities for general and individual health advice will be readily available, planned propaganda for general and special National Health education undertaken, and opportunities for voluntary medical examinations and investigations for all, freely provided without expense before the actual onset of either physical or mental disease. Such health centres should be set up throughout Great Britain. (b) The unification of National Health Services and their administration through a central Government Department is a recognised necessity, so as to secure uniformity and equality of health measures in all areas. (c) The importance of Health Education must be stressed. This has two important aspects - (A) General health propaganda for the proper authoritative information and guidance of the ordinary public, and also (B) Representative control of Medical Education both before and after graduation or approval for professional work or practice. Such representative control in the latter.
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