BMA Opposes Health Act
LONDON, Fri.—After talks lasting all day a special representative meeting of the British Medical Association in London yesterday unanimously passed a resolution stating that the National Health Service Act in its present form ‘“is so grossly at varir ance with the essential interests of the profession that it should be rejected absolutely by all practitioners.” The meeting was attended by 370 doctors from all parts of Britain and the resolution is being sent to all the 56,000 members of the medical profession who will ballot on the issue at the end of the month.
A rejection by 63 per cent of the profession would, it is claimed, make the act unworkable. A leading article in the current issue of the British Medical Journal emphasises that the medical profession is in a strong position. Its services are indispensable to the welfare of the community and will, of course, never be withheld, the journal says, but' it can determine the conditions of its work and insist upon maintaining a framework of liberty and freedom which at the same time includes order.
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Northern Advocate, 10 January 1948, Page 2
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