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

available to all. ... The new department will have responsibilities going beyond those of
existing local
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1968 cont authority departments, but they will include the present services provided by the
children's departments, the welfare services provided under the National Assistance Act
1948, educational welfare and child guidance services, the home help services, mental health
social work services, other social work services provided by health departments, day
nurseries, and certain social welfare work currently undertaken by some housing
departments". The Committee considered that the local authority health departments had been
"much engaged in work which we think is more likely to develop in the social service
department. ... Meanwhile major new tasks of community medicine are being left undone".
See 1970.
"National Health Service - The Administrative Structure of the Medical and Related
Services in England and Wales", the first Green Paper on the reorganisation of the NHS,
suggested the unification of the administration of the medical and related services in defined
areas in place of the multiplicity of authorities currently involved. It recommended that there
should be between 40 and 50 new boards responsible directly to the minister. Each board
would have a chief administrative officer whose task would be the coordination of the work
of four or five functional departments, and a chief medical officer, with access to the board,
who would be its principal adviser on all medical professional matters and would be the
director of the department for the planning and operation of services. See 1970.
The Scottish Home and Health Department set out possible plans for Scotland in its
Green Paper "Administrative Reorganisation of the Scottish Health Services". See 1972.
The Committee on Hospital Scientific and Technical Services (chairman Sir, later
Lord, Zuckerman) proposed that a Hospital Scientific Service should be set up within the
NHS organisation to include pathology, biological sciences, medical physics, nuclear
medicine, biomedical engineering, and applied physiology; that at district level scientific
departments 1968 should be organised on a divisional basis; and there should be a new career
structure for non-medical scientists and technical staff.
The Committee on the Care of the Health of Hospital Staff (chairman, Sir Ronald
Tunbridge, 1906-84, professor of medicine, Leeds University) reported. See 1982.
The Central Health Services Council issued a report of a sub-committee on "The Future
of the Chest Services" (chairman, JG Scadding) recommending the continuance of the
absorption of the work of chest clinics into the work of departments of respiratory diseases in
general hospitals.
The Government Social Survey published "Social Welfare for the Elderly - A Study in
Thirteen Areas in England, Wales and Scotland" by Amelia Harris. See 1971.
Ninth Report of the Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration,
Cmnd.3600, published. See 1970.
National Board for Prices and Incomes reported on the pay of nurses and midwives;
and introduced rates of pay for the new grades of staff recommended by the Salmon
Committee (1966). See 1974.
Eighth Revision of the International Classification of Diseases introduced. See 1975.
Statistics of legal abortions collected for the first time.
"Psychiatric Nursing. Today and Tomorrow", a report from the Standing Mental Health
Committee and the Standing Nursing Advisory Committee of the Central Health Services
Council, endorsed the need for a separate training and qualification for psychiatric nurses;
and saw the nurse becoming the key therapeutic figure in behaviour therapy, rehabilitation,