U.K. Health Service Needs ‘Transfusion’
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LONDON, Sept. 13. Only a “massive transfusion” could save the British National Health Service now, a doctor told the 1916 delegates at the annual conference of the Trades Union Congress in Brighton, Sussex.
For yean, he said, the health service “has been slowly bleeding to death.” Moving a resolution asking the Government to make available the money necessary to make it a modern and efficient service, Dr. P. S. Greaves, the secretary of the
Medical Practitioners’ Union,
said that for 17 years the service had been steadily moving toward bankruptcy. “On the 8.8. C. a short while ago I heard it said that the average spending money of the teen-ager was £4 a week—£l2so million a year. “This is £125 million more than the total cost of the health service. “It is not ludicrous that the health service should be facing the danger of breakdown through lack of money in a society which has surplus wealth of that kind?” said Dr. Greaves. The resolution was carried after it had been amended to express opposition to any proposal to charge patients for consultation or treatment.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30855, 14 September 1965, Page 21
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