Orders of the Day — National Health

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 12 June 1945.

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Photo of Dr Edith Summerskill Dr Edith Summerskill , Fulham West 12:00, 12 June 1945

I have just said that this document is so comprehensive—[Interruption.] It is a document that was circulated widely. It is divided into three columns giving the White Paper proposals, the B.M.A. proposals and the Minister's proposals for an alternative structure. It is possible for me to look at one document in which all three are contained. Having read the proposals in the White Paper, I said that the proposals of the Minister were that the proposed requirement that all doctors proposing to enter practice in new areas must obtain the Board's consent, would be dropped. The Minister has already told the House this afternoon that he is to direct nurses, after their first year, to those areas in which nurses are needed. Why is he willing to persuade nurses to go where they are needed, while he refuses to make young doctors go where they axe needed?