Report / Royal Commission on the National Health Service.

  • Great Britain. Royal Commission on the National Health Service
Date:
[1979]
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Credit: Report / Royal Commission on the National Health Service. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AND for the better effecting the purposes of this Our Commission do by these Presents give and grant unto you, or any four or more of you, full power to call before you such persons as you shall judge likely to afford you any information upon the subject of this Our Commission; to call for information in writing; and also to call for, have access to and examine all such books, documents, registers and records as may afford you the fullest information on the subject and to inquire of and concerning the premises by all lawful ways and means whatsoever: AND We do by these Presents authorise and empower you, or any of you, to visit and personally inspect such places as you may deem it expedient so to inspect for the more effectual carrying out of the purposes aforesaid: AND We do by these Presents will and ordain that this Our Commission shall continue in full force and virtue, and that you, Our said Commissioners, or any four or more of you, may from time to time proceed in the execution thereof, and of every matter and thing therein contained, although the same be not continued from time to time by adjournment: AND We do further ordain that you, or any four or more of you, have liberty to report your proceedings under this Our Commission from time to time if you shall judge it expedient to do so: AND Our further will and pleasure is that you do, with as little delay as possible, report to Us your opinion upon the matters herein submitted for your consideration. GIVEN at Our Court at Saint James’s the nineteenth day of May 1976; In the Twenty-fifth year of Our Reign. By Her Majesty’s Command. Roy Jenkins Note: Professor Alan Harold Williams resigned from the Commission on 31.8.78. Mr C M Clothier QC resigned from the Commission to take up the appointment of Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration and Health Service Commissioner on 3.1.79.
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