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

Tenth Report of the Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration,
Cmnd.3884, published. See 1970.
1969 Cont 2
1969 cont A Joint Sub-Committee on People with Epilepsy (chairman, JJA Reid, 1925-94,
later Sir John and chief medical officer, Scotland) of the Central Health Services Council and
the Advisory Committee on the Health and Welfare of Handicapped Persons recommended
the expansion of services and the creation of 5 or 6 special centres for those people with
epilepsy whose care and management presented particular problems.
The Scottish Consultants Review of In-Patient Statistics (SCRIPS) introduced in
Scotland; abandoned in 1979.
A Scottish Working Party on Suggestions and Complaints in Hospitals (chairman, EUE
Elliott-Binns) recommended a new complaints procedure which was adopted in 1970. See
1973.
A Committee of the National Council of Social Service and the National Institute of
Social Work Training on The Voluntary Worker in the Social Services (chairwoman, Miss
(later Dame) GM Aves) reported.
International Health Regulations replaced the previous International Sanitary
Regulations (1951) dealing with cholera, plague, smallpox and yellow fever.
The World Health Organization published "The Teaching of Public Health in Europe"
by JD Cottrell which described the teaching in 27 European countries including the USSR.
See 1973 and 1976.
The World Health Organization published a report of an Expert Committee on Medical
Rehabilitation (Technical Report Series No. 419), following up the report of 1958. The new
report defined rehabilitation as "the combined and co-ordinated use of medical, social,
educational, and vocational measures for training or retraining the individual to the highest
possible level of functional ability". It set out proposals for the organisation of medical
rehabilitation services; and recommended that every faculty of medicine should create a chair
of rehabilitation medicine. See 1972 and 1973.
The Committee on Research into Fluoridation produced further evidence of the
benefits of fluoridation - "none offers such certainty of general improvement in the teeth of
children". See 1976.
Bachelor of Nursing degree introduced by Manchester University. See 1972.
In "Change and the National Health Service", published in the Scottish Medical Journal
(14, 130-144), JHF Brotherston (1967) argued the case for the reorganisation of the NHS. He
identified two crucial reasons for developing an integrated health service - the practice of
preventive and of curative medicine should be closely linked with greater involvement of
general practitioners and consultants, and the traditional epidemiological and public health
approaches of the medical officer of health were increasingly required in the effective
planning and evaluation of medical care services.
In "Tomorrow's Community Physician", published in The Lancet (2, 811-816), JN
Morris (1948) set out the future role of community physicians. Morris saw the community
physician as epidemiologist, community counsellor and administrator of local medical
services; and as a professional man and a public servant taking on and extending "the
traditional tasks of the medical officer of health as teacher, watchdog and trouble maker."
Widespread epidemic of influenza (A2HK, Hong Kong).
The Open University established, offering part-time degree studies to students of all
ages via correspondence, broadcasting, tutoring and short residential blocks.
Cranfield Institute of Technology founded and the first eight polytechnics established.