British Doctors and Commonwealth Medical Council
Recd. 11.10 p.m. London, July 23. Sir Hugh Lett, in his presidential address to the annual meeting of the British Medical Association, said the Association’s Council decided to recommend that affiliated and daughter associations in the Commonwealth be invited to co-operate in establishing a British Commonwealth Medical Council, to meet in the orincipal overseas centres as weq as in London. It was also proposed to establish an Empire Medical Advisory Bureau in London to advise and help students from the Commonwealth and Colonies.
Sir Hugh denied that the association was opposing the National Health Service Act as a result of narrow self-interest. While many doctors looked forward to a co-ordin-ated national health service they were anxious that it should give the greatest possible hope to the community and allow doctors to give of their best. Doctors should take an active interest in the organisation of their profession. “The attempt by some local authorities to compel their medical officers and nurses to belong to a particular body, whether trade union or not, threatens our freedom as individuals,” he claimed.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 24 July 1947, Page 5
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