Report of deputation to Minister of Health on "A National Health Service"...
1945-03 1945 1940s 8 pages PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL JT.S.I.C.&.W.C.F.C.9/2 8th March, 1945 TRADES UNION CONGRESS Report of Deputation to Minister of Health on "A National Health Service" on Thursday, 8th March, 1945 at 2.30 p.m. Rt. Hon. H.U. Willink, M.P. (Minister of H...
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PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL JT.S.I.C.&.W.C.F.C.9/2 8th March, 1945 TRADES UNION CONGRESS Report of Deputation to Minister of Health on "A National Health Service" on Thursday, 8th March, 1945 at 2.30 p.m. Rt. Hon. H.U. Willink, M.P. (Minister of Health) Rt. Hon. T. Johnstone, M.P. (Secretary of State for Scotland) T.U.C. Mr. W.P. Allen Dame Anne Loughlin Mr. A. Cook Mr. W. Elger Mr. R.J. Fageant Mr. F.T Jordan Mr. J.W. Lowe Mr. W. McLaine Hr. J.L. Smyth Dr. H.B. Morgan, M.P. Dr. A. Clarke Dr. A. Welply Dr. Gordon Ward Mr. Willink in welcoming the deputation said that he was grateful for the document he had received and for the opportunity of meeting the representatives of the T.U.C. He was pleased to note that the document he had received was very favourable to the Government's proposals for a National Health Service. He assured the deputation that there was no peril at all to the 100 per cent. principle of the White Paper, but there would naturally be certain modifications in the structure of it as it emerged in the Bill. There was pretty wide opposition in the county boroughs and counties to the administration and the ownership of hospitals transferred from the individual councils to a joint board. The real essence of the plan on the hospitals' side was in the whole sphere of planning rather than the administration of individual hospitals. It was essential in the hospital service to get organised co-ordinated planning over wide areas. The proposals now being considered had that effect. There would be a democratically constituted planning council which would make a plan to be submitted to the Minister for approval and when so approved it would be binding upon the individual counties and county boroughs owning the hospitals. Instead of there being a purely local authority planning body, it was very likely that the planning council would turn out to be a body with a local authority majority, but associated with it in the planning council would be other interests so that they could all plan together. There was also the feeling that the present areas were too small for the widest organisation of hospital and health services and there were many observations that 35 areas were too many.
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