13-439: National Health Service Act may refer to any of the following Acts of Parliament: National Health Service Act 1946 National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1947 National Health Service (Amendment) Act 1949 National Health Service Act 1951 National Health Service Act 1952 National Health Service Act 1977 National Health Service Act 2006 Topics referred to by
26-720: A single health service for the United Kingdom , in reality one NHS was created for England and Wales accountable to the Secretary of State for Health , with a separate NHS created for Scotland accountable to the Secretary of State for Scotland by the passage of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1947 . Similar health services in Northern Ireland were created by the Northern Ireland Parliament through
39-521: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages National Health Service Act 1946 The National Health Service Act 1946 ( 9 & 10 Geo. 6 . c. 81) came into effect on 5 July 1948 and created the National Health Service in England and Wales thus being the first implementation of the Beveridge model . Though the title 'National Health Service' implies
52-525: The Act (HTML version) Hospital management committee Hospital Management Committees (HMCs) were established as the main instrument for the local management of hospital services of the National Health Service (NHS) in England and Wales under the National Health Service Act 1946 . There were originally 377 committees which were answerable to the 14 regional hospital boards . Each HMC
65-643: The Health Services Act (Northern Ireland) 1948. The whole Act was replaced by the National Health Service Act 1977, which itself is now superseded by the National Health Service Act 2006 and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 . According to s 1(1), It shall be the duty of the Minister of Health ... to promote the establishment ... of a comprehensive health service designed to secure improvement in
78-466: The physical and mental health of the people of England and Wales and the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness and for that purpose to provide or secure the effective provision of services ... The Act provided for the establishment of a Central Health Services Council with 41 members to advise the minister: the presidents of royal colleges, councillors, and representatives of doctors, dentists, nurses midwives and pharmacists. Hospital services were
91-471: The practitioners in each area. The Medical Practices Committee was established to regulate general practitioners . The sale of the goodwill in medical practices was prohibited. The Dental Estimates Board was established Most services were to be free, but there were powers to make charges for: The functions of the Board of Control for Lunacy and Mental Deficiency were transferred to the minister. Full text of
104-774: The responsibility of the minister. Existing voluntary and local authority hospitals were transferred to the NHS. Regional hospital boards were created on the basis that each region could "conveniently be associated with a university having a school of medicine". Under them were hospital management committees , to manage individual hospitals or groups of hospitals, other than teaching hospitals, which retained their boards of governors. County councils and county boroughs were designated as local health authorities. They were responsible for providing ambulance services, health centres, and for care, including dental care, of expectant and nursing mothers and of children under five. They had responsibility for
117-451: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title National Health Service Act . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=National_Health_Service_Act&oldid=1009302306 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
130-547: The supervision of midwives and the provision of health visitors and community nursing. They were also responsible for vaccination of persons against smallpox, and immunisation against diphtheria and other diseases. Executive councils were established to supervise general medical and dental services, pharmaceutical services and supplementary ophthalmic services. Provision was made for the establishment of local medical committees , local pharmaceutical committees , ophthalmic services committees and local dental committees to represent
143-421: The system of Regional Hospital Boards and Hospital Management Committees with regional health authorities in 1974. (Hospital Management Committees as created under the National Health Service Act should not be confused with the management committees which governed many individual hospitals prior to the creation of the NHS, particularly following the transfer of former workhouse infirmaries to local councils under
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#1732847523650156-498: Was planned so that patients could be treated in the hospital best suited to their medical needs. Mental hospitals were grouped under their own HMCs. The 36 large teaching hospitals were outside this structure; they maintained their own endowment funds and their old boards of governors, who reported directly to the Minister for Health , rather than a Regional Hospital Board. The National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973 replaced
169-434: Was responsible for a group of around 10 functionally-related or locally grouped hospitals. The aim was that each hospital group should be able to provide all services which would be available at a large general hospital, and might therefore consist of, for example, a former voluntary general hospital , a municipal general hospital, a maternity home, an isolation hospital , as well as several other smaller hospitals. The service
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