A national health service : the White Paper proposals in brief.

Date:
1944
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Credit: A national health service : the White Paper proposals in brief. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IX SUMMARY OF PROPOSALS 1. Scope of the new Service. (a) A National Health Service will be established. This service will be available to every citizen in England, Scotland and Wales. (b) There will be nothing to prevent those who prefer to make private arrangements for medical attention from doing so. But, for all who wish to use the service it will provide a complete range of personal health care—general and specialist, at home, in the hospital and elsewhere. (c) The service will be free, apart from possible charges for certain appliances. (Questions of disability benefits will be dealt with in later proposals on social insurance.) 2. Structure of the Service. (a) Central. : (i) Central responsibility to Parliament and the people will lie with the Minister of Health and the Secretary of State for Scotland. | : (ii) At the side of the Minister there will be a professional and expert advisory body to be called the Central Health Services Council. The Council will be a statutory body and its function will’ be to provide professional guidance on technical aspects of — the Health Service. There will be a similar body in Scotland. — (b) Local. (i) Local responsibility will be based on the county and county borough councils, which are the major local government authorities now. They will administer the new service partly in their present separate capacities over their present areas, partly— — as the needs of the service reqQuire—by combined action in joint boards over larger areas. (ii) Areas suitable for hospital organisation will be designated — by the Minister after consultation with local interests. (iit) The county and county borough councils in each area will combine to form a joint authority to administer the hospital, consultant and allied services; in the few cases where the area coincides with an existing county area the authority will be the county council of that area. (iv) At the side of each new joint authority there will be a consultative body—professional and expert—to be called the Local Health Services Council. (v) Each joint authority will also prepare—in consultation with the Local Health Services Council—and submit for the Minister’s approval an “area plan” for securing a comprehensive Health Service of all kinds in its area. :
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