National Health Service Bill
1946-04 1946 1940s 10 pages - 1 - INTRODUCTION - FUNDAMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS The objective is agreed 1. The voluntary hospitals support the objective of the Bill in providing a national comprehensive health and hospital service free of charge. The Patient 2. The paramount consideration is that...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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| Language: | English English |
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April 1946
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| Summary: | 1946-04
1946
1940s
10 pages
- 1 - INTRODUCTION - FUNDAMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS The objective is agreed 1. The voluntary hospitals support the objective of the Bill in providing a national comprehensive health and hospital service free of charge. The Patient 2. The paramount consideration is that the service should meet the best interests of the patient and the community. The Bill 3. The provisions of the Bill relating to hospital service are not in the best interests of the patient and the community because they eliminate all local interest in hospitals and local autonomy in their management, and extinguish the voluntary hospitals, The proposed transfer of ownership of all hospitals to the Minister, the confiscation of their property and the establishment of a complex scheme of administration substitutes remote control and impersonalisation for direct management and personal interest. The spur to improved efficiency in the individual hospital is lost; the human approach to the patient is jeopardised. A Constructive Approach 4. It is essential to achieve a national hospital service, providing free and comprehensive services to the citizen without destroying a sufficient measure of local autonomy and local interest. It is also possible to retain the voluntary hospitals (see B.H.A. Plan attached), with their accumulated and continuing experience, as an integral part of the National Health Service. They need not be dependent for the purposes of the State service upon voluntary income from subscriptions or contributions in any form. At the same time they can continue to attract local interest and support for special purposes and to improve their own efficiency. The voluntary hospitals therefore make a constructive approach to the problems raised by the Bill and seek by amendment to retain those features which are in the best interests of the service as a whole. 5. The Association submits that the Bill should be amended as far as may be necessary to retain and promote local interest in the hospital service and to enable hospitals or groups of hospitals to hold in trust their assets, including buildings and equipment, thus preserving their local entity and ensuring the continuing experience and service of the existing Local Hospital Managements which would otherwise be lost to the Nation.
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