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National Health
The National Health Service Hill, details of which are publish ed in this page, represents the third pillar in the edifice of social security which the new Britain is resolved to construct. And the most ambitious of all. In the first place, it bears less trace of Coalition Government
ancestry than the other two plans. Neces sarily, the Government had to press abend with projects that had already been prepared in earlier the days. Agreement between parties was an advantage as long as no fundamental sacrifice of prine ple was involved. But in te se of the Health Bill, con- cession to various prejudices had
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1946.
To The Patient
THE BEVAN PLAN FOR. A What It Means HEALTHY NATION
Every man, woman and exild in the country is to have by right, however much or however little money they possess, the best me dical treatment which science and the nation can provide.
based.
Regional Hospitals can still accept, legacies for hospital or health ser vices.
Instead of each hospital acting -independently as hituerto. Ho
taneously a dental service will be sturted which Can be steadily expanded until it is like that of the doctors.
Dentists can, come. In either on a full or part-time barls. Their payment will be weltled by regula- tion after. the Minister hus con- suited the professional bodies con- cerned,
SCIENCE SURVEY
Escape
BY RITCHIE CALDER
By Rocket
They
In the new freo Health Ser- No travel agency is likely to the Germans trica L vice you will be able choose any offer und-trips to the Moon used a centrifugal machina a doctor (or dentist) you like, pro or a voyage to Venus for a very high-speed chair-o-plane -- and vided he co-operates in the
with an C- long time to-come, but if it did spun mon round scheme,
ofceleration at 160 feet per second You can bay for an additional it might have quite a lot
accond from my cor- per
(that is, every specialist if you wins, or Yemain clients, judging
md respondence,
second they went 100 feet fas-, n privato paying patient.
You
will be able to attend new, The development of V2s, the ter than the second before) for A Barious publicly-equipped health centres releast of atomic energy and alne minutos with or you can go to your own doctor's the prevailing feeling that the electa. Since an acceleration surgery.
eccond por world is a good place to get of 300 foot per
from huve Mothers who need domestic help away
revived in-second gives you 25,500 m.p.h. on health grounds will bo protorest in the possibilities of well within 8 minutes, that vided with it.
scema te be the answer. Children, expectant and nursing cacaping to the planeta,
Rocket tripa into space enn dental ald of mothers will get priority
no longer be lightly dismissed treatment,
You will benefit under the an fantasies. Human ingenuity Health Bill whether or not you which broke the bonds of the problem in the "take-off." The have paid Insurance contributions. atomic nucleus ia quite capable, atmosphere of the earth sets up You can pay for extras within eventually, of breaking the friction. It makes an object it at high the service, such as private bonds of gravity, And the ad-passing through
Man speed. glow a shooting star, curiosity of how disciplinary tribunal, room at a hospital, but even if venturous is embraced in the now, service, but are completely out of date, the under n'loral chairman appointed you cannot pay you will attil get may one day send him career-priately, the red glow of the V2
ing into The Void, an astro- as it plunged to earth. by the Lord Chancellor, will deal
nautical Columbos. with professional misconduct by doctors, chemists, dontiste and opticians, and will have authority to "strike off" a convicted practi- blotter. There is a right of ap- peal to the Minister.
Management Committees Similar arrangements will be That is the broad principle on pilal which the National Health. Ser-will be set up for each of the very made for the care of your eyes vico B, published yesterday, is large hospitals or for groups of including sight-testing and provi smaller onen, and all these, Insion of apoctacles Eye clinics in each area will be co-ordinated into charge of specialist medical oph The Bill, sponsored by Mr. a unified service,
thalmologists, with the Bovan. Minister
qualified opticians, are to be set Aneurin
and Within those general limita the Health, covero England Wales, and a Bill to extend simi-Boards will enjoy a high degree up as soon as possible.
in their own
The eye services, like all others, Iar benefits to Scotland will follow of independence
will be free to everybody who wants to use them.
Roon.
об
No attempt is made In the Bill itself to describe in detail all that
the
bold structure of a compre- bensive National Health Service, anequalled in any other country, Many of the details, to be filled a well defined. Many of the
by
regulations, are means of
White given in an explanatory Paper, published with the Bill,
in
Drens.
the
existing
To supplement teaching hospitals, many of which Minister may authorise new or existing hospitals to become teach ing institutions,
He can take, regulations about of ver- qualifications conditions vice, and pay of everyone on har pital staffs after consulting the organisations which represent
prothom.
if the This shows that, pania are carried out according to plan, the new service will come early in into general operation 198.
And in the Health Service, un- the National Insurance contributions which Scheme, in determine benefits, there is no An-
to your right to them. anelal limit health.
Four Servicos, All Froc
The whole will be free. sorts of service:
rango
of services There are four main
Doctors' Right To Refusa
Hospitals will be allowed to re- Tooms tain "pay-bed" or private only when non-fee-paying patients can have them too. If they need
Wartime developments, euch as "blood banks" and mobile trans- Tusion teams, will become a por manent feature of hospital treat ment
Health Centres are to to the main feature of your personal
A
doctors a private room if the think it advisable.
Your relationship with your doctor will be unchanged except that you need have no billa to pay.
pay.
DOCTORS
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•
•
There is, however, another.
for instance, or more appro-
It is not beyond the wật <of I do not want to encourage man to devise materials which anyone to make the attempt. I would prevent the rocket from Incandescent should hate to be haunted for turning into an the rest of my life by a miner meteorite which would roast its planet circling 600 miles above occupants or disintegints. They the earth and the thought have already gone a long way
Bill Smith of in the rocket projectiles. "There's poor
in hls man-made round in his moon. spinning orbit at 4 miles a second for all eternity, just because I got a decimal wrong."
New Health Bodies
Doctors can join the health ser- vice and still practise in their Many health services, it is re cognised, need local administra-present districts. They can still Clapham,
have private patients, Local tlon. New bodles called
Those who practise in under- Health Authorities will, therefore, doctored areas
will get higher be appointed to organise the care of expectant and nursing mothers and children under school age.
They will be responsible for local midwifery services, health vlefting, and proviston of home help and home nursing,
either directly or through voluntary or- ganluations,
And they will provide cod-liver prevented Mr. Willink, the pre This means sanatoria, maternity medical service. These new build-1 oil, fruit Juices and other supple- !
ings will provide doctors with all mentary foods essential for good the latest equipment for diagnosin.health." They will also serve as bases for health education everywhere,
The provision of Health Cen- tres, their equipment and staffing, is a duty which will fall on the county and county borough au- thorities, and it must be carried out according to standarda down by the Minister.
11015
to
come
1. Hospitals and Specialists. vious Health Minister, from
convalescence, rehabilitation, men- any other Tackling the problem in the way tal treatment, and that Labour Government specialist institutional treatment
the
for private DAY You can still dermed essential, and the Bill as
you want to. Parliament wards in hospitals
In out-patient treatment, clinics presented shows that the real task has not
and diapensarles will all been shirked. Long before the within the service, and speolalists deltes about the future which will attend you. at health centres Atos during the war, the Labour or at your home if necessary.
2. Health Centres and Personal Party had campaigned for a much
Doctors. You choose your family doctors and dentist from any in mare rational health scheme.
service; and many of was pledged to provide a service the new which was both free and national those will be working in the now and which would be capable of publicly-equipped Health Centres development into a system which to be set up under the Bill. would be more concerned with
It
If you want to go to another doctor, there is nothing to stop
him.
be
Inid
will Locul Health Authorities have to establish statutory health committees (similar to local edu- cation committees) to make sure of the that all the requirements Bill are carried out in their areas.
Compulsory vaccination is to
Doctors attending centres will be abolished, but free vaccination outside the control of the local and diphtherin immunisation must authorities, but will be under Ex-be provided for those who want ecutive Councils to be established them. in each county and county borough
area.
professional-repres
The Annual Cost (152 Millions
contemplated by the Coalition, priority dental service for chil-service where they are now prac~National Health Service will cost
It
Sale of practises stops. A Me dical Practises Committee will re- gulate the allocation of practises
HOSPITALS
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Fin
But we still have not decided. on the fuel which would pro- duce 35,500 miles hour. Solia explosives Jike, any, But we can. quite seriously, R.D.X., are apparently no good. exaraine the possibilities and The most powerful liquid ex- A fund of £68,000,000 will com- difficulties of Space Travel. plosive is fiquid hydrogen and For one thing, to overcome liquid oxygen, a combination so pensate doctors who are unable to sell their practises because they the gravitational pull of the volatile and unmanageable that have joined the public service. earth we would need a rocket the Germans in the V2 compro- Doctors and dentists will deal speed of 25,500 miles an hour, mised with alcohol and liquid direct with local Executive Coun-If it is shot off at a speed of oxycn. cib, providing half the members less than 6.93 miles a second it "In Cleator's "Rockets will merely fall back to earth Through Space," published ten like the shot of an ordinary years ago, it was proposed that gun. If it had exactly that Space ship should be built in will just scrape steps. The first "step," the All hospitais and health institu- apced it
with
appassenger-carrying nose, would tions will come under 18 to 20 through, but
preciable speed left to continue weigh 80 tons, of which 60 tons Regional Hospital Boards.
So Thus the voluntary ospital the journey.
We want
would be fuel. The second step system is ended, and all hospitals margin.
would weigh GG0 tons, of which But 25.500 miles an hour is 480 would be fuel. The third will charc national resources.
Their premises and equipment
V28 which hit which 3,840 tons would be fuel. are to be transferred to the sight times as fast as the top-step would weigh 4,480 tons, of Minister, but, medical and dental speed of the
developments since are secret. ship of 5,120 tons. schools will continue under their London, and while the rocket A totol weight for the rocket- present governors.
the third step The fuel of will be em- it is safe to say than they are Hospital staffs
n traction of would be sufficient to give it a ployed by the Regional Boards, capable only of which will fix terms of engage that necessary speed.
velocity of 2 miles per second and when empty would be Jet- tisoned. The fuel of the second Could human beings survive step would increase the momen-
miles an
□ speed of 25,590
tum of the lightened ship by hour 7
The danger is not the another 2 miles a second and speel
acceleration. would be thrown away in turn. Those who have flown in high-The "nose" now travelling with speed aircraft will know that!
five miles a momentum of the discomfort is in the take second would use its own fuel At to increase its speed to the re-
ment.
Endowmonts of voluntary hos pitals will pass to a new Hospital Endowment Fund.
BULGAR OPPOSITION ACCUSED
but the
A
will be One half of the
doc- ors. dentists and chemists. One
Half the annual cost of these the prevention than the cure of you but you will have to pay third of the rest will be appoint
local authority, and services to the local authorities it is not sur-
about £6,000,000 will be borne Supplementary Servicen. Un-ed by the disease. Hence
one-sixth by the Minister.
by the rates, but the rest will prising to find that the Minister
All doctors will be entitled to der this heading come midwifery,
in the family doctor come from Exchequer grants.. part take of Health has sought a much more maternity care and child welfare
It is estimated that the new adventurous solution than was health visiting, home nursing, a
who
Moscow, Apr. 8. tising. Lists of all those todren and expectant and nursing wish to serve will be published, £152,000,000 a year.
The political observer of the off, in the change of speed. it Government.
seems fair
you from them you will choose mothers, domestic help
and radical changes
An annual contribution from the Moscow "News" yesterday ac- constant speed their is not more need it for
to attend reasons, vac the doctor you what
National Insurance Fund of suggest that the
trans- you. If you make no choice you £32,000,000 a year, with savings Cued the Bulgarian opposition of (sensation at 400 or 600. or 25,-quinite seven miles a second. proposed are shaped on the basis cination, immunisation against in-
But you'll notice that all we deliberately advancing unaccept 600 miles an hour than there is will have a Roctor allocated to
on existing grants, is expected to able conditions to cause the falin sitting in a stationary roomhave done is push poor Bill of the health requirements of the fectious diseases, special tra
It has been calculated that country rather than on the politi-fusion and laboratory services.
4. Medleine and
nd Appliances.
Doctors will have the right to reduce the net cost, to the Trea- lure of negotiations with the new
sury to £15,000,000 a year.
Bulgarian Government.
Space-bound rocket would have Smith of Clapham out into gate-crashing, gravity den-
For the father
front par- to attain the critical velocity of Space,
him no way back. The full hospital and specialisti and other
Payments to be made to doctors the original White Paper which
other appliancea, as well refuse to attend any person
ties, said the writer, Premier 7 miles a second in not more but giving will called for "a comprehensive health ns drags and medicines, at health clinics, che:
he announced in regula- | service is expected to cast 237 Kimon Gorgiv, did overything in than 8 minutes, that is, from So it would be necessary to save hospitale, service for the improvement of the centres,
cal balance existing at the time of You will receive spectacles;
Lures
you
physical and mental health of the misis' and opticians shops. It tions, but a system will be devised | 000,000 a year, and the provision his power to broaden the founda.rest to 25,500 miles an hour in the nose supply for the return
to
lists of of the family doctor, dentist.
journey, and that means adding chemist and eye services £46,000,- tion of the government in order 000 a year.
to fulfill the recommendations of 8 minutes or less.
Would the human body standa fourth stage, which in the the Moscow conference of foreign ERNEST JAY.
this terrific acceleration? Well, eame ratio would bring the ministers-Associated Press,
weight of the vessel up to 40,- 960 tons, of which only 20 tons would be Space-ship proper. And the cost was estimated at £20,- 000 000.
prevent excessive people of England and Wales, and you carelessly break your glasses patients, such as those which da-
vou must pay for repairs.
A committee under the chair- Considerine this great range of maged the old panel system, for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness." Under the services. Mr. Bevan's task was to manship of Sir Will Spenn is con
д scheme which would in- scheme as now submitted to the form
ments, And the new rater will be legislature, the voluntary hospi- clude everybody without causing sidering what constitutes fair pay-
hardship or raising lasuperable based on its report, tals are to be brought under State prejudicra. The flexibility of the measure of control. The medical profession Billa proposals is the becomes partly a public service, his success. and it is significant that follow-
Just A Single Service ing publication of the Govern-
BY THE WAY By Beachcomber
uture succession to old practices ship enabeft and said to him. I was tod a horse he could
Areas
practice,
consent of
on to Tattersa
I
put me
DIVORCE LAW SNAGS
>
To get to Venus and back you
of
the
Doctors will not be "directed" from wealthy practices to less profitable areas. Instead, pay in
The outburst of catcalls at as tried to make me apply for a for the distribution of second- unpopular
istricts will be in recent boxing match, when a re-ilcopce to buy an old horsecollar band railway sleepera, and two would have to have a seven-step creased as an inducement to new
feree gave an unpopular decision, from a Government dump in forms to be filled up by anyone Yeasel of 20,971,520 tons, cost- doctora to go to them.
a decon requiring a park-keeper's uniform. ing £700,000,0001 ment's proposals, the threatened One major change in the or-
So, abandoning stored fuels A Medical Practices Committee reminded me of the man who went which he said he had
not a horse he said that if not h" million-pound Doctor's Crusade kantention of the war on disease will be established to regulate up to a referee after a champion-trolling interest. When I said it I felt I had wasted my time but
as Impracticable, we are forced "A Musical Sensation
our old friend against the Bill has virtually col-affects the hospitals
sald, All existing premises and equip and the opening of new practices. bitterly: "You are the first blind
Mohampa Methiot, the child to retreat on lapsed. As "The Lancet" puts!
whole it: "It is easy to be too much ment of all voluntary and public Sale and purchase of practices man I've seen without a dog."
hospitals (including those owned will be forbidden, but doctors who Charlie Suot and Mrs. Bilbound metal. What is he naked. The prodig made his first public ap-atomic energy. If a handful of thing became so involved bearance yesterday in a specially matter could give us the aus- by municipalities) are transferred bought their present practices will afraid. We should ask ourselves
rocket-gases pro- of be compensated,
Asked whether C. Suet, Esq., that before I left his office he composed "Reverie for the Loft tained explosion which the com- had boon
em-Foot Since this amazing four-bustion an use to her. Mrs. had given me a certificate
difficulties aro will not duces, all our to blow glass for year-old's little fingers whether, with all its risks, the by the Bill to the Minister service contemplated does not give Health.
to bring the treatment of £66 Millions As Compensation Dulcie Bilbound said: "Not the powering me And
to think non-industrial purposes, a leaflet stretch an octave, he plays with solved and we can ge shooting slightest. He seemed us great opportunities. It is a
After an "appointed day," doc lantern Metal was a horse, and explaining the present regulations his foot. And to see his toes off to the Moon in a rocket of enpering up and down the keys is gontéel proportions rocket great end that whatever person physical and mental illness into s single service the Bill also trans-
to realise that the planoforte is can benefit from medical skill and fors to the Minister the adminie tors, on qualifying, to
not an instrument that Jonds Itself coupe.
That is precisely what they can knowledge shall have it without trative duties of the Board' of will have to get the
in the present easily to this mode of execution- hindrance. The means now pro- Control, which at present is res the committee before
start in a now area. If an ap
bat then what is Not the trom-atom. at least doctor Minister
The only explosion it posed to that end may need modi-ponsible for mental cases,
to the the new service.
has right of appeal
tho
ly applauded at the end, but one not da. fication, but they certainly do not parlamentator answer to plication is refused, the
What would happen. de you of Nevadan clube, sold your Lon- bone, azauredly. Motblot was loud form of uranium falou, does call for wholesale condemnation it will be prochnical alde by a Minister in which there is a think, if you, a Briton, went to don house and, during your live wonders if this was not a tribute can offer us is the instant to
were years, obtained a divorce under to the unusual nature of his por-shattering explosion which des or irreconcilable opposition.". The fossional and
report America with your wife, of doctors will shortage fact is that Mr. Bevan has met Central Health Servlong Council.
The country will be divided int so that now doctors divorced over there returned to Nevadan law; and if, subsequent formance rather than to its in- troyed Hiroshima and Naga- somebody ly, you returned to London be trimic merit. The little lad was saki. Hiroshima is the smallest explosion uranium or plutonium 10 to 20
cause your goldfold contract had violently sick before leaving the regions, each with Re have the opportunity to go where Britain, and married nearly all the reasonable objec
else 7 tions that doctors have raised in gional Board representing doctors, they are most needed.
Would you be liable. to a pro- run out and you proposed to take platform, a misfortune which can give us, because the eltical A total of £90,000,000, has been
a job in the Yorkshire coalmines,
mass of fissionable material tilonce the past. Neither patient nor incal health authorities and Uni-
used in it is the absoluto min- doctor is to be robbed of his resity medical schools.
Hospital staffs, including aur-allocated for compensation for the accution for bigamy?
whole
In the early nineteen hundreds your divorce would, probably, be feared him still more to the au country, including Scotland.
One of the witnesses was a 100- imum which will produce ex- rights. Private practice does not ses, will become the employees
was successfully valid, whether you married before
Others were plosive reaction. And
The best my friends, the auc cease Against the imaginary these Boards, which must main. This total has been accepted by the second Lord Russell married regarded as valid in Britain and
apportioned to individual doctors, in
for bigamy.
you came home or after your arri-year-old woman.
montal specialists, Scotland perils raised by the BM.A tai
Normade until a doctor retires
these payments will prosecuted
The gonora British practice is val.
Each camp is regarded on its Yard expert, lawyers, sculptors, lear physicists, can etler, to the moneylenders, photo rocketeers da an atomic-engino And cach Beard must make sure not be
be wondo
in case of for one State to recognise as valid
graphers, fishermen, elephant tiri which the Blow chain-reaction
heat the new health clinical centres,
produces
(and through the hospital services un that there are adequate nervices, et cho made un
treatment, to ticet, the node hardship) and, meanwhile. 2% a divorce granted in another Stato, own merite, but the key aquires, cant interest is added each provided that the divorcing couple domicile. Der
plutonium) in the atomic-pile If you go to a British Dominion vere, prooms, wrestlers, a billiard which Ogard the State in which they cluding every form of "pecia-
(Morning: papor.) His own area.
reight, somehow boised to the manifold supplementary ser of its
fr. Bevan,gives a special place Doctors who foln in practice at gained their divorce as their per-or Colony, to India or Malays champion and dancing piris.
fat five years, it is assumed your vices, Britain is to have what should have been established long to the voluntary teaching hospitals Health Centres will be ungod to manent domicile,
In which medical students are pool their pay and divide the If you just flow to Rono-(that domielle is still in the British (Enter 31 small Egyptian milk manufacture in transit explo- Nevadan elby the centre of the Isles, oven though you may have men hauling an iron model of Kew sive gases. But they do not say how. What, in effect, they ago genuine and all-in health trained. Their endowments will total between them.
American divorce industry), ful-given up your British house and Gardens).
Systematic foolery
are saying "Disintegrato These pictures are incomprehen matter to produce. Alled the statutory requirements carted your furniture over. service available to every citizen. be handed over to new Boarde
that, Dentists Are In, Too
, of course, you do intend to of Novads by staying there for Some time must, pass before it it- Gevernors, who tains to its full stature, and it will wherever practicable, these funds
six months, and flew back to Lon- call for imaginative administra are used as originally intouded. tion. On this
off deadly and destructive If, however, you went dor a, Reno divorce is not neces-fokus: About Telures, and boot cause an atomic-pilo which gives Lancet comments The Glov. 000,000, go into a new Hospital the sampe lines as your medical here.
radiations has to be protected behind massor of concrete ominent's, new scheme scores fair Endowment Fund and, after debts services the curves ly high marks, higher than any of are paid, are apportioned among Priority will Just have to be America with five-year contract entily valid in other States of the one which bears the legend. Las
the Regions.
riven to children and axpectant to work in the goldneids of Ne- United States, #Baarde of both Teaching and--and nursing others. But simul- vada, took a hobee Joined a couple
of
stands the broad fact. Through the cou conditions all over the medical profcation and will be for a second time after a divorce a second marriage ne equally
Ver regional management, thibagh
its predece
aspect,
will see
of
year.
Partly because there are not
(Art critic.).
in the country where you cible, and their túles meaningless; produce matter." to Other voluntary, hospitala: on- enough dentista, you dontal sex-don, it is probable that such a duobisited your divorce the divorce and have to do is to ko to mil-Aud oven, then we have not Thaowments, belleved to total £32," vico cannot yet be provided onTvorce would not be recognion*-But there, arp dags even thereales, open Ehö drawers marked' solved, the weight problem, be
la salid for that country.
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