HEALTH SERVICE
Breakdown Feared (n .Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, Nov. 1. Unless the British Government spent more money on the National Health Service, the service would break down, Dr. Philip Hopkins, the immediate past-president of the Medical Practitioners’ Union, warned “There are just not enough family doctors for the many patients making heavy demands upon them,”. Dr. Hopkins told a meeting of the patients’ association in London. Present arrangements within the National Health Service were so unattractive that 400 doctors a year were emigrating. Family doctors in Britain were expected to provide facilities which should be provided'by the Government. A doctor might have to attend 120 or more patients in a day, and this destroyed the “precious relationship between a patient and a doctor.” Dr. Hopkins said Britain’s hospital service was “very well arranged to treat definite diseases” but 90 per cent of the people who went to see their doctof had complaints Which involved nervous tension and depression, and doctors had not enough time to treat these illnesses.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30588, 3 November 1964, Page 11
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