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MEDICAL AND HEALTH SERVICES
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Our Medical and Health Services are good, and
the drop in the levels of communicable disease and
infant mortality, and the rise in expectation of life
has been extraordinary. Nevertheless the services are
far from perfect, and the population is not only
growing, but also moving into new areas not covered
by existing services. We therefore have a Ten-year
expansion plan. That in the 1974 White Paper has
been reviewed and rolled forward each year, but not
republished. After the current year's review by the
Medical Development Advisory Committee up-dated plans
will be made public in the same way as the Annual
Review of our Social Welfare programme is published.
1ON
As an indicator of where we have now got to, the main
objectives for 1986/87 recommended by the Medical
Development Advisory Committee are:-
a)
b)
The number of general and specialised
hospital beds to increase from 20,000
or 4.4 per thousand population now to
approximately 31,800 or 6.1 per thousand.
The number of out-patient clinics to
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