The Hospital The hospital will in many ways always remain the most important feature of a medical service. It is true that very large numbers of minor illnesses are dealt with either by ordinary household remedies or by the general practitioner, but there are few members of the population who escape at least one visit … Read more
What Kind Of Service Have We? Until war became imminent it was only with the greatest difficulty that anyone could be persuaded to regard the chaotic and anachronistic structure of medical practice and hospital services as of any real importance to the nation. Weaknesses were admitted, but were generally excused as being part of our … Read more
When Charles Frederick Thackray and Henry Scurrah Wainwright bought a Leeds retail pharmacy as a going concern in 1902, they could hardly have foreseen that their business would one day expand to employ more than 700 people, with markets all over the world. In less than a century, the corner shop was to grow into … Read more
Report of the Inquiry into London’s Health Service, Medical Education and Research Presented to the Secretaries of State for Health and Education by Sir Bernard Tomlinson October 1992 INTRODUCTION We were asked by your predecessors in October 1991 to advise on the organisation of, and inter-relationships between, the National Health Service and medical education and … Read more
Labour Party Health Care OPPOSITION GREEN PAPER Report of a Working Party 1973 LONDON THE LABOUR PARTY 20p Foreword This document is the eighth to appear in the now well-established series of Opposition Green Papers and I have no doubt that it will arouse as much interest and comment as earlier publications of this nature. … Read more
Summary of the proposed new service Command paper no 6761 Presented by the Minister of Health to Parliament by Command of His Majesty March 1946 NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL SUMMARY OF THE PROPOSED NEW SERVICE This paper contains a general description of the proposed health service with which the Bill deals. It is intended only as a … Read more
The Lancet Jan. 20, 1945 Lecture delivered in London on Oct. 13, 1944, under the Chadwick Trust. SOMERVILLE HASTINGS, MS LOND., FRCS Chairman Of The London County Council Hospital Management in Peace and War I desire to bring before you some observations on the administration of hospitals in peace and war. I need hardly remind … Read more
Do we need a State Medical Service? If so, on what lines should it be planned? This pamphlet summarises the Labour Party’s answers to these two questions, which concern everyone in the land. PART I IS A STATE MEDICAL SERVICE NEEDED? Before answering the first question, we must decide what we require of the Health and Medical … Read more
Confidential. Labour Party. L.G.97/NOV.1938. Public Health Advisory Committee. The science of medicine has been undergoing profound changes during recent years. Diseases that but a few years ago were thought to be incurable are now yielding to treatment. The healing art is no longer mainly dependent on potions and pills, but is roping in to its … Read more
Introduction Labour has a new plan for our National Health Service. A plan not just to protect it but to improve it for years to come by making sure we have a health service that can meet the challenges of the 21st century and remain sustainable for the future. Our plan will help people get the … Read more
Informal carers at home have always provided the default backup for inadequate and often inhuman public service, which in the pre-NHS days of the Poor Law was frankly designed to be more unpleasant than home care (the 19th century workhouse Doctrine of Less Eligibility). People of my age remember when elderly married couples, forced to … Read more
