State Of Medical Practice In U.K. “Bad,” Says Doctor
(N.Z P.A.—lJeuter Copyright.) (11 a.m.) LONDON, March 23. Dr. Joseph B. Ceilings, in a report published in the medical journal Lancet, says that the overall state of general medical practice in Britain was “bad and still deteriorating.’’
Dr. Collings has also studied health services in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States.
Dr. Collings says the worst elements of general practice are in areas of dense population and that tho deterioration will continue until objective standards of practice are established and attained. “The National Health Service Act has done nothing, Immediately or directly, to disturb the structure of general practice. but it has intensified the shortcomings which are the result of basic weaknesses In general practice,” he says.
Dr. Collings says that some of the working conditions in the surgeries and equipment, organisation and staffing are bad enough to require condemnation and “bad enough to change a good doctor to a bad doctor within a very short time.”
He concludes his report: "The present conditions and gloomy outlook for the future have produced demoralisation in many thoughtful members of the profession.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23211, 24 March 1950, Page 5
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