Britain's Health Services
1942-10 1942 1940s 40 pages BRITAIN'S HEALTH SERVICES The Communist Party's Proposals THE Health of the people is vital to the well-being of a nation in peace no less than in war. The Communist Party has always demanded for the people of Britain (a) such a standard of living as wi...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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| Language: | English English |
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London : Communist Party of Great Britain
October 1942
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10796/0A62ABED-9A17-4955-B9C7-D9EE50CF7432 http://hdl.handle.net/10796/F9C510E1-7B6D-4F69-A172-A3623414E758 |
| Summary: | 1942-10
1942
1940s
40 pages
BRITAIN'S HEALTH SERVICES The Communist Party's Proposals THE Health of the people is vital to the well-being of a nation in peace no less than in war. The Communist Party has always demanded for the people of Britain (a) such a standard of living as will provide the basis for the preservation of good health and (b) a national co-ordinated health service for the efficient treatment and speedy restoration of workers when sick or injured. We are today paying a heavy price for the fact that over many years these demands of the Communist Party were not adopted. Just before the outbreak of war, for example, Medical Boards were finding that two out of every three volunteers were physically unfit for the Army. Even now, after nearly three years of war, insufficient attention is paid to health questions; health services are still not as well organised as they might be to meet the heavy strain to which they may at any time be submitted. Today, more than ever, it is of the utmost importance that serious consideration should be given to the means by which all preventable illness and accident may be eliminated and to the measures that hospitals and other health centres can take to ensure the earliest return to duty of soldiers or workers who may be unavoidably sick or injured. In the following pages the Communist Party suggests how these problems can be tackled. Readers of this pamphlet who are not engaged in health work are referred particularly to the section "Health and Production." They should make widely known the extent to which sickness and accident are avoidable and do all in their power to bring the suggestions for prevention to the notice of their Trade Union Branches, Joint Production Committees and every unit of the organised Labour movement. Health workers themselves will find all the information contained herein of value in their work. 5
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