Britain's Health Services
1942-10 1942 1940s 40 pages hospitals naturally linked together should not enter into closer relations with each other for discovering ways of assisting one another. Examples are:— facilitating transfer of patients (especially under air-raid conditions); reducing overlapping of small spec...
| 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/BDEDB4F6-D18E-4DF3-BC03-AECCC48D7067 http://hdl.handle.net/10796/1D514C85-8BCB-4F27-AA42-478B7D337E6A |
| Summary: | 1942-10
1942
1940s
40 pages
hospitals naturally linked together should not enter into closer relations with each other for discovering ways of assisting one another. Examples are:— facilitating transfer of patients (especially under air-raid conditions); reducing overlapping of small special clinics; establishing rotas of evening clinics for day workers; entering into arrangements for interchange of staff to meet emergency conditions; providing for common use of elaborate instruments and apparatus not at present available to all institutions. (b) General Practitioners and Medical Man-Power In many districts the calling up for the armed forces of the younger practitioners has resulted in a serious restriction of local domiciliary services; the black-out has made it impossible to answer all night calls, and petrol rationing has added to these difficulties. In other places, however, numbers of medical men are relatively lightly employed and are not contributing their skill and capacity to the degree required by an all-out war effort. In many hospitals whole-time medical officers are off duty alternate afternoons, and in some of the public services, clinics, etc., the doctors' duties are by no means heavy. In all areas medical practitioners already have, through the B.M.A. or local War Committee, some form of joint representative body. Where the existing body is not suitable, Medical Service Committees might be democratically elected from all doctors within a given radius. Such committees and those already in existence could use and direct medical personnel to provide domiciliary services, to man the various local clinics, to supply factory doctors, without overlapping and with the minimum of travelling. The committees could arrange to supply doctors for the evening clinics at hospitals and, by use of a common consulting room, provide late evening surgery facilities for the industrial workers. During the war, doctors' work should not be separated into the watertight departments of their specialities. For example, hospital anaesthetists are rarely fully employed and might well assist in busy out-patient clinics. There are many ways in which similar adjustments could be made between medical men 15
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