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

Date:
1944
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    : NOTE: : For reasons of geography and local government structure there are : : certain differences, principally in matters of administration, in the arrangements : ? proposed for Scotland. These differences are explained in a section on the Service : : in Scotland and elsewhere in the text ; where no difference is mentioned it should : : be understood that the proposals for England and Wales apply equally to Scotland : : with the necessary adaptations. + SORE REAR BRERA SESE GSSEE SO EES ESSE STEP ETE GSES EEE REESE 95495994595 55659060 6556 GOGIOOEEGELEEGEDE GODGEDSE DOIIOSIGIANAMADAAENADIMODOOH FEES EODOH ESTERS E® A National Healih Service INTRODUCTORY The Government have announced that they intend to establish a National Health Service, which will provide for everyone all the medical advice, treatment and care they may require. This new service represents the natural next development in the long and continuous growth of the health services of the country. Although it forms part of the wider theme of post-war reconstruction —and although it will form an essential part of any:scheme of social insurance which may be adopted—it has to be seen in the hight of the past as well as the future and to be judged on its own merits as part of a steady historical process of improving health and the opportunity for health among the people. In considering the form which the new National Health Service should take, the Government have had the help of informal discussions (in no way binding on those who took part in them) with representatives of the major Local Authorities, the Medical Profession, the Voluntary Hospitals and others. They now put forward definite proposals for discussion in Parliament and in the country, but they do not at this stage put the proposals forward as fixed decisions. Indeed, they have promised that those concerned, professionally and otherwise, shall be fully consulted before final decisions are taken. The Govern- ment will welcome constructive criticism and they hope that the next stage—the stage of consultation and public discussion—will enable them to submit quickly to Parliament legislative proposals which will be largely agreed.
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