A Chronology of State Medicine, Public Health, Welfare and Related ...

Six small outbreaks of diphtheria in schools affected 33 people. See 1975.
Cytological screening for carcinoma of the cervix introduced. See 1966.
1963 Cont 2 - 1964
1963 cont Patients Association founded.
The Universities of York and East Anglia founded.
1964 Start of the war in Vietnam; ceased in 1975, after the withdrawal of US troops in 1973.
Nurses Act (c.44) required the General Nursing Council to admit to the Roll of Nurses
persons with specific knowledge and experience of psychiatric nursing. See 1967.
Education Act (c.82) enabled schools to be provided which avoided the necessity for
the transfer of children from primary to secondary schools at the age of 11 plus. See 1970.
Housing Act (c.56) dealt with grants for improving conditions in existing houses of
reasonable standard; gave local authorities powers to deal with groups of sub-standard but
soundly constructed tenanted houses; and extended the provisions of the 1961 act in regard to
houses in multiple occupation. See 1966 (Scotland) and 1969.
Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act (c.64) provided for penalties to be imposed on
persons in unauthorised possession of scheduled substances. See 1965.
The Welsh Office set up. See 1969.
The Scottish Committee on Children and Young Persons, Cmnd.2306, (chairman, Lord
Kilbrandon) examined both the public order and social work aspects of juvenile delinquency;
recommended the provision of new comprehensive social welfare departments based on local
authorities; and a new system of local juvenile panels to replace the juvenile courts. See
1966.
Ministry of Health agreed that provision for postgraduate and continuing education of
doctors was a proper charge on NHS funds. See 1967.
Ministry of Health started funding projects and programmes of health services
research. See 1965 and 1971.
Report of the Joint Committee of the Central and the Scottish Health Services
Councils, "Health Education" (chairman, Lord Cohen, see 1954) recommended that health
education should not only provide information but also seek to influence people to act on it
and to counteract pressures inimical to health; that local authorities should appoint health
education officers; and that central boards should be established in each country (see 1927
and 1943). See 1968.
Royal College of Physicians of London published a report "Training for Consultants"
which set out the training requirements for each of the medical specialties under its aegis.
Surgeons and obstetricians had always required candidates for their fellowship and
membership examinations to have followed training in approved posts. See 1967.
Report on the Medical Staffing Structure in Scottish Hospitals (chairman, JH Wright).
The Royal College of Nursing and the National Council of Nurses of the UK issued a
report "Administering the Hospital Nursing Service", following the lines of the Bradbeer
Report (1954). It recommended the appointment of group nursing officers, nursing officers at
the level of the hospital secretary, and clinical nursing officers to serve specialist units. See
1966.
A Committee (chairmen, Sir Harry Platt) of the Royal College of Nursing issued a
report, "A Reform of Nursing Education", recommending that student nurses should have
student status and be financed independently of the hospital during their first two years of
training, on the completion of which they should take the final examination, which would be
followed by one year of full-time service in a hospital; in addition universities should