HEALTH SCHEME
BRITISH LABOUR PARTY POLICY. MEDICAL MEN AS SALARIED STATE SERVANTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, April 19. A Labour Party pamphlet dealing with its post-war policy on a national health service declares that it can give better value for the money than the Beveridge report, which recommended spending £170,000,000 a year on the prevention and cure of disease. The Labour Party complains that the Beveridge plan does not propose fundamentally to alter the present medical service, which “has a serious weakness in that, having no fixed salary or pension, doctors naturally tend to congregate where they are likely to make good incomes, rather than where the need for doctors is greatest.” The Labour Party’s pamphlet urges the establishment of a State medical service, with a central health authority competent to plan as a whole. It adds: “Local authorities should run health centres and hospitals and doctors should be salaried State servants.” The report suggests that the scheme should be established for the sum Sir William Beveridge mentions.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 April 1943, Page 2
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169HEALTH SCHEME Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 April 1943, Page 2
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