A report on the purpose and activities of the Trust, 1939-1948.

  • Nuffield Trust
Date:
1949
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Credit: A report on the purpose and activities of the Trust, 1939-1948. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Tl THE FUTURE PLANS OF THE TRUST IN the preceding section of this report an outline has been given | of what has been attempted and accomplished in the past. On the future plans of the Trust it is not possible to be as precise as one might wish, but some indication of future aims and inten- tions is given in the following paragraphs. The creation of the National Health Service introduced a situation differing widely from that which determined the Trust’s activities hitherto. In consequence, the Trust was faced with two questions. First, did the creation of a national health ser- vice mean that the Trust’s mission had been completed and that, thereafter, there would not be any useful work for it to do? If the answer to this question was in the negative, the second question arose—what work should the Trust undertake in future in pursuance of its trust objects, and what machinery would it need for this work? The issue of whether or not the mission of the Trust has been completed or frustrated by the passing of the National Health Service Act is one of such importance that it may perhaps be useful to recapitulate briefly the facts at issue. The purposes of the Trust are restricted to ‘the co-ordination on a regional basis of hospital and ancillary medical services throughout the Provinces and the making of financial provision for the creation carrying on or extension of such hospital and ancillary medical services as in the opinion of the Governing Trustees are necessary for such co-ordination’. While, clearly, the betterment of the hospital and ancillary medical services was the underlying aim, the work undertaken by the Trust, and any schemes initiated by other bodies that it may finance, must be related to ‘co-ordination on a regional basis’. Since the
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