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

other doctors undertaking this work to have had special training. See 1976.
1967 Cont 2
1967 cont The Society of Medical Officers of Health published "The Doctor and the Child
Welfare Centre" setting out the Society's views on the purposes and organisation of such
centres.
The Committee of Inquiry into the Relationship of the Pharmaceutical Industry and the
National Health Service, Cmnd.3410, (chairman, Lord Sainsbury) considered that excessive
prices had been charged for drugs; recommended that companies should provide annual
financial returns to the Ministry of Health; and that a medicines commission should be set up.
See 1968.
The Committee on General Medical Services in the Highlands and Islands,
Cmnd.3257, (chairman, Lord Birsay), of the Scottish Home and Health Department, reviewed
the current situation; made many recommendations, including the introduction of some
salaried general practitioners; and criticised the over-centralisation of specialist services and
the tripartite administrative structure of the NHS. See 1968.
A Committee of the Central Advisory Council on Children and Their Primary Schools
(chairwoman, Lady Plowden) recommended that parents should be encouraged to be actively
involved in their children's education; that there should be positive discrimination in favour
of schools in deprived areas; more effort should be made to improve educational
opportunities for the children of immigrants; that nursery education should be provided parttime
for most children aged between 3 and 5; that medical examinations should be on a more
selective basis; and that social workers should be attached to schools and education welfare
officers should carry out wider social work functions. See 1980.
The General Medical Council replaced its "Rules for Diplomas and Degrees in Public
Health" by "Recommendations ..." setting out broad headings of the required areas of
instruction instead of a detailed curriculum. The headings were: the quantitative sciences
including medical statistics and epidemiology; behavioural sciences as applied to health
including health education; genetic and environmental factors in health and disease including
methods of prevention and control; and health services organisation including economics,
evaluation and the principles of administration and management. See 1974.
The World Health Organization published the proceedings of a Conference of
Directors of Schools of Public Health (Technical Report Series No.351). There was
agreement that the basic postgraduate public health course should cover biological and social
sciences in relation to public health; statistics and demography; epidemiology including
survey and research methods; environmental health; health education; and administration and
management of health services, including their planning and evaluation. In addition, training
should include a period of supervised field experience and some experience of research work.
See below and 1969.
The Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust published the reports of three working parties
on vocational training for general practice, for the psychiatric services and for the
administration of hospital and public health services. The report of the third working party
commented that medical administrators "must work on two professional levels, as specialists
in the medicine of the group and in relation to the community at large, and also as
administrators". It recommended common training for doctors on the staff of the regional
hospital boards, in the public health services and in central government health departments
consisting of practical experience and an academic course together extending over a
minimum period of two years. See 1968 and 1972.
"Sans Everything: A Case to Answer", compiled by Barbara Robb for Aid for the