Annual report of the Royal Northern Hospital : 1946.

  • Royal Northern Hospital (London, England)
Date:
1946
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Credit: Annual report of the Royal Northern Hospital : 1946. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a larger range of expensive equipment, and the engagement of whole¬ time Radiotherapists, Physicists, etc., has become justified in the combined Centre. By this means concentration on the treatment of cancer, and its essential record-keeping and follow-up work, has been intensified as well as the study and development of treatment for other forms of disease coming within the scope of Radiotherapy. An anonymous loan of £1,900, free of interest, has been received to help this work forward. NATIONAL HEALTH ACT The National Health Act has now become law and Governors will know that under its provisions Hospitals will be taken over next year by the State. It is as well to mention here that in the case of the Royal Northern gross assets to the value of about £1,000,000 in Endowments, Lands, Buildings and Equipment will be handed over to the Government. The introduction of the Act will lead to far-reaching changes in the method of management of the Voluntary Hospitals. Although this great alteration in the organisation of the Hospital services of the country is viewed with grave concern by many people it is to be hoped that the support and interest of all those who have so willingly given voluntary services and financial help in the past will still be forthcoming and that by means of the loyal service, co-operation and valuable experience of some members of Boards of Management, Hospital Officers and Staff who remain under the new regime the services available to the sick and injured may continue unimpaired and that patients may still receive that individual sympathy and interest which has always characterised the Voluntary Hospital System. CONCLUSION The Board are proud of the Hospital’s record of 91 years of efficient and progressive services to the sick and its share in the training of Medical Men, Nurses and Midwives and other professional staffs, and they extend their thanks to all those in this Country and from Overseas who have, by their work and gifts, enabled these services to be efficiently maintained and enlarged. There is still a year before the change of ownership takes place and the Board are anxious, in the interests of the patients and the people of the Country generally, to hand over an Organisation in as good a state of efficiency as possible. To do this they must still have the help of the subscribers and donors who have so loyally built up the Royal Northern Group of Hospitals and they appeal most earnestly to every¬ body to continue their generous support. July, 1947. ' {Signed) BESSBOROUGH, Chairman. \