BRITAIN’S AFFAIRS

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 April 1943, Page 4

BRITAIN’S AFFAIRS

MEDICAL SERVICE

LONDON, April 19. The Labour Party, in a pamphlet dealing with its post-war policy on national health service, declares that •it can. give better value for the money than the Beveridge Report,, which recommended the spending of £170,000,000 on the prevention and cure of disease. The Labour Party complains that the Beveridge Plan does not propose fundamentally to alter the present medical service which “has a serious weakness in that, having no fixed salary or pension, doctors naturally tend to congregate where they are likely to make good incomes, rather than where the need for doctors is ° res. test ■ 5 7 The Labour Party’s pamphlet urges the establishment of a State medical service with a central health authority competent to plan as a whole. Local authorities should run health centres and hospitals, and doctors should be salaried State servants. The report suggests that the scheme should be established for the sum the Beveridge Report mentions. RINGING OF BELLS LONDON, April 20. The ban on the ringing of church bells in England, imposed in June, 1940, when it was decided that the bells would.be rung only as a warning of invasion, is to be relaxed. Mr Churchill, in announcing that the ban was to be lifted, said the bells could be rung on Sundays or on special days, to summon people to church.