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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    (vi) County and county borough councils combining for these duties of the new joint authority will also severally be responsible for the local clinic and other services in accordance with the area plan. Responsibility for child welfare will be specially assigned in whatever way child education is assigned under the current Education Bill. 3. Hospital and consultant Services. (a) It will be the duty of the joint authorities themselves to secure a complete hospital and consultant service for their area—including sanatoria, isolation, mental health services, and ambulance and ancillary services in accordance with the approved area plan. (b) The joint authorities will do this both by direct provision and by contractual arrangements with voluntary hospitals (or with other joint authorities) as the approved area plan may indicate. (c) The powers of present local authorities in respect of these services and the ownership of their hospitals will pass to the joint authority. (d) Voluntary hospitals will participate, if willing to do so, as autonomous and contracting agencies; if so, they will observe the approved area plan, and certain national conditions applying to all hospitals in the new service alike; they will perform the services for which they contract under the plan, and receive various ’ service payments from both central and local funds. (e) Special provision will be made for inspection of the hospital service through centrally selected expert personnel. (f) Consultant services will be made available to all, at the hospitals, local centres, or clinics, or in the home, as required; they will be based on the hospital service, and arranged by the joint authority, either directly or by contract with voluntary hospitals under the approved area plan. - (g) Measures for improving the distribution of consultants, dealing with methods of appointment and remuneration, and relating the consultant service to other branches of the new service generally, will be considered after the report of the Goodenough Committee. | 4. General Medical Practice. (a) Everyone will be free, under the new Health Service, to choose a doctor—the freedom of choice being limited, as now, only by the number of doctors available and the amount of work which each doctor can properly undertake. } | (b) Medical practice in the new service will be a combination of grouped and separate practice.
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