Hospital scientific and technical services : report of the Committee, 1967-68.

  • Great Britain. Committee on Hospital Scientific and Technical Services
Date:
1968
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    This is partly because we want the new system to be flexible, and partly because we are not competent in our constitution, or sufficiently well informed of the details of particular services and grades of staff, to make judgements of this kind. We saw our task as the establishment of a framework, on which further detailed work would be needed. If our main recommendations are accepted, we would expect that the Ministers, in consultation with staff interests and with the proposed new Scientific Councils, would set up working parties to advise on the planning of particular services and on the integration of the present classes of staff into a new structure. 0.5. We have been greatly helped by the large amount of written evidence which organisations and individuals have sent to us (see Appendix I). We are grateful to those who submitted evidence for giving their views so promptly. We found a very strong body of opinion throughout the hospital service, and the many other organisations which we consulted, in favour of an integrated scientific and technical service.