Britain's Health Services
1942-10 1942 1940s 40 pages 7. TRADE UNIONS IN HEALTH SERVICES The chief Unions catering for health workers are :— In Local Authority Hospitals :— National Union of Public Employees (N.U.P.E.). — Total Membership, 70,000 (approximately 52,500 males and 17,500 females)....
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London : Communist Party of Great Britain
October 1942
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7. TRADE UNIONS IN HEALTH SERVICES The chief Unions catering for health workers are :— In Local Authority Hospitals :— National Union of Public Employees (N.U.P.E.). — Total Membership, 70,000 (approximately 52,500 males and 17,500 females). Of this number about 50,000 are health workers and include 10,783 nurses (4,310 female S.R.N's, 2,156 male S.R.N's, 3,053 assistant nurses and 1,264 unqualified male nurses). National Union of County Officers (N.U.C.O.). — Total Membership, 11,000 (5,000 male and 6,000 female). Of this number about 5,000 are health workers. Mental Hospitals and Institutional Workers' Union (M.H.I.W.U.).— Total Membership, 22,413 (14,171 male and 8,242 female). All workers in this Union are health workers. There is a Trade Union designed for doctors — The Medical Practitioners Union with a membership of 5,000. In Voluntary Hospitals :— There is a slight membership of hospital domestic workers in the Transport and General Workers' Union and the Municipal and General Workers' Union. 8. GENERAL PRACTITIONERS General Practitioners form approximately 63% of the total number of doctors normally in practice and they are almost entirely responsible for the enormous amount of medical work done annually under the National Health Insurance Scheme. There are 19,000,000 insured workers entitled to benefit under the Scheme and some 8,000,000 seek advice each year and receive over 50,000,000 attendances from the general practitioners. Under existing circumstances in which general practitioners practise in isolation they are faced with numerous problems ranging from the heavy expenses of maintaining a surgery and necessary technical and clerical assistance to the difficulties of arranging off-duty, holidays and post-graduate study. Often they have neither the facilities nor equipment essential to an adequate diagnostic service. It is hard to see how these problems will be solved save by the establishment of a complete system of "Health Centres" throughout the country. 9. THE EXTENT OF ILL-HEALTH AND ACCIDENT The following figures and quotations (a number of which are referred to in the main text of this pamphlet) set forth statistically certain social and industrial conditions of the present time. Not all of the disease and accident referred to can be reckoned preventable but a considerable proportion could be eliminated even on a short term programme. Lost Labour time (sickness and injury) 40,000,000 work-weeks annually. (Time lost from labour stoppages other than those caused by ill-health, only 153,570 weeks in 1941.) 35
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