Report of the Committee of Management and Medical Director : 1948 / Papworth Village Settlement.

  • Papworth Village Settlement (Cambridge, England)
Date:
1948
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Management and Medical Director : 1948 / Papworth Village Settlement. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OF MANAGEMENT, 1948 The submission of a Report for the year 1948 presents rather more difficulty than usual, since this has been mainly a period of adjustment to the new conditions set up by the inauguration of the Health Service on July 5th. The division between treatment and rehabilitation brought about by the Act has necessarily involved many changes, but the basic idea of Papworth remains unaltered. Our work for the rehabilitation of the tuberculous goes on as before, and the Committee of Management has every confidence in the continued development of this work, on the principles laid down by our Founder, and so successfully fol¬ lowed throughout the past thirty years. In the words of the Minister of Health, whom we were privileged to welcome on his first visit to the Settlement in May, “Papworth will have no reason to fear that it will. In any way, be interfered with, but its opportunities will almost certainly be enlarged.’’ The changes to which I have referred relate of course to the treatment aspect of our work, the ownership and control of our hospitals having passed to the East Anglian Regional Board and to the newly formed Papworth Group Hospital Management Committee respectively. The actual buildings concerned are the Bernhard Baron Hospital for men, the Princess Hospital for women, the Nelson Langermann Hospital, the Slms- Woodhead Memorial Laboratory and St. Peters’ Nurses’ Home. Here again, however, Papworth has been fortunate in that the break has not been so decisive as might at first appear. The unique character of our work has been recognized by the setting up, under the Regional Board, of a Hospital Management Committee solely for Papworth ; and on this Committee no less than ten members of our own Committee of Management have been elected to serve. A considerable amount of continuity has thus been maintained and the administration has remained much the same as heretofore. Certain seni¬ or officers of the Institution have become part-time officers also of the Regional Board ; in the main, however, the lay staff have remained employees of the Settlement, but in order to preserve as much uniformity as pos¬ sible the Committee decided to adopt the National Health Service scales of salaries for administrative staff. In addition the Committee took the precaution of recording by formal resolution the service of those officers which had not been entirely covered by the Pensions Scheme in the event of their transfer under the Act to the Health Service. The hostels and Queen Mary House have remained in the care of the [5]