The National Health Service in Scotland, 1947-74: Scottish or British?

Historical Research

Volumn 76, Issue 193, 2003, Pages 389-410

  Stewart, John ^a  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 34547259822     PISSN: 09503471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-2281.00182     Document Type: Article

References (105)

1. Dept. of Health for Scotland (hereafter D.H.S.), An Open Letter to Every Scottish Household On - Your New National Health Service (Edinburgh. [1948])
2. Report of the Royal Commission on Scottish Affairs 1952-4 [Cmd. 9212]. pp. 39-40
3. H.C. (Edinburgh, 1954), xix-1
4. The Acton Society Trust, Hospitals and the State, v: the Central Control of the Service (1958), p. 21
5. National Archives of Scotland (hereafter N.A.S.), HH 101/3606, Scottish Home and Health Dept. (hereafter S.H.H.D.) paper, 'Administrative reorganisation of the National Health Service', 1 July 1969
6. S.H.H.D., Reorganisation of the Scottish Health Services [Cmnd. 4734]. p. 5
7. H.C. (Edinburgh, 1971), xxi. 1183
8. S.H.H.D., The National Health Service and the Community in Scotland (Edinburgh, 1974), pp. 1-2. Author's emphasis in quotations
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13. R. Klein. The New Politics of the N.H.S. (Harlow. 4th edn., 2001), p. ix
14. C. Ham, Health Policy in Britain: the Politics and Organization of the National Health Service (Basingstoke, 4th edn., 1999). Compare, in terms of number of references to Scotland, the 3rd edn. (1992)
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16. The Health Services Since the War, ii: Government and Health Care: the British National Health Service, 1958-79 (1996)
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18. See the relative, or in some cases absolute, lack of comment in, e.g., People and Society in Scotland, iii: 1914-90, ed. A. Dickson and J. H. Treble (Edinburgh, 1992)
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24. See also H. Dingwall, A History of Scottish Medicine (Edinburgh, 2003)
25. D. McTavish, 'The N.H.S. - is Scotland different? A case study of the management of health care in the hospital service in the West of Scodand, 1947-87', Scottish Medical Jour., xlv (October. 2000), 155-8
26. The N.H.S. in Scotland: the Legacy of the Past and the Prospect of the Future, ed. C. Nottingham (Aldershot, 2000)
27. There is much revealing data on Scotland in M. Shaw and others, The Widening Gap: Health Inequalities and Policy in Britain (Bristol, 1999). What this shows is the strong correlation between poverty and ill-health
28. M. Duprée. 'Towards a history of the N.H.S. in Glasgow and the West of Scotland", in Nottingham, pp. 139-40
29. The National Archives of the U.K.: Public Record Office. T 227/1320. Treasury memorandum, 13 Dec. 1961
30. Ministry of Health/D.H.S., A National Health Service [Cmd. 6502]. p. 42. H.C. (Loudon and Edinburgh, 1944), viii. 315
31. N.A.S., HH 101/2187, memorandum by George Buchanan to the Cabinet, Oct. 1945
32. N.A.: P.R.O., T 227/1319, Treasury memorandum, 15 March 1961
33. S.H.H.D., The National Health Service in Scotland (Edinburgh, 1969), pp. 18-19, 20-1. This was an updated version of a pamphlet first published in 1959
34. S.H.H.D., Doctors in an Integrated Health Setvice (Edinburgh, 1971). p. 4
35. The National Health Service and the Community in Scotland, p. 1
36. see also McTavish, p. 156
37. Hansard, Parliamentary Debates, 5th ser., Commons, cdxxxi (10 Dec. 1946), col, 1003
38. J. Jenkinson, 'Scottish health policy 1918-48 - paving the way to a National Health Sendce?', in Nottingham, p. 13 and passim
39. See also J. Jenkinson, Scotland's Health, 1919-48 (Bern, 2002)
40. Ministry of Health/D.H.S., A National Health Service, p. 42
41. See, e.g., N.A.: P.R.O., T 227/1321, Treasury memoranda, 7 and 26 March 1962
42. Webster, The Health Services Since the War, ii. 347
43. Hansard, 5, Commons, cdxxxi, cols, 1014-15, 1038-9. 25 Webster, The Health Services Since the War, i. 105
44. Hansard. 5, Commons, cdxxxi, col. 1003
45. N.A.S., HH 101/2427. S.H.H.D. paper, 'Structure of the National Health Service in Scotland', 29 Feb. 1968, p. 3
46. Hansard, 5, Commons, cdxxxi, cols. 996, 1011
47. N.A.S., HH 101/2860. Hospital Planning Committee: Note of the 87th Meeting of the Committee held on 17 Oct. 1962
48. D.H.S., Hospital Plan for Scotland [Cmnd. 1602], p. 20
49. H.C. (Edinburgh. 1962), xxxi
50. N.A.S., HH 101/2427, memorandum 'Health Service Structure', 16 May 1968
51. S.H.H.D., Administrative Reorganisation of the Scottish Health Services (Edinburgh, 1968), p. 19
52. Hansard, 5, Lords, cccxxvii (8 Feb. 1972), col, 1075
53. N.A.S., HH 101/2429, 'Proposed Health Board Areas: Consultation Paper', 16 Oct. 1972, p. 1
54. Webster, The Health Services Since the War, i. 238
55. Webster, The National Health Service, pp. 35-6
56. See the useful history and guide, compiled by the Treasury, in N.A.: P.R.O., T 165/392. Main Note, July 1962, and Amending Notes. June 1963 and Aug. 1964
57. Scottish Information Office, Reference Unit, Scottish Office Brief on the National Health Service in Scotland - 1974: Year of Reform (Edinburgh, 1974), p. 6
58. Hansard. 5, Lords, cccxxvii, col. 1080
59. Webster. The National Health Service, pp. 90ff
60. N.A.: P.R.O., T 227/13 18, letter from the Treasury to Dept. of Health for Scotland, 11 Jan. 1961
61. N.A.: P.R.O., T 227/1321. memorandum, "Visit to Scotland', 26 March 1962
62. Acton Soc. Trust. Hospitals and the State, iv: Groups, Regions and Committees, pt. 2 (1957), p. 3
63. R. J. Finlay, 'Scotland in the 20th century: in defence of oligarchy?'. Scottish Hist. Rev., lxxiii (1994), 103-12, at pp. 110. 111
64. Royal Commission on Scottish Affairs, i: Memoranda Submitted to the Royal Commission by the Scottish Departments (Edinburgh, 1953), p. 45
65. N.A.S., HH 101/3216, D.H.S. memorandum. 30 Nov. 1961
66. N.A.S., HH 101/2031, notes of office meeting held on 19 June 1968
67. McTavish, p. 156
68. Doctors in an Integrated Health Service, passim
69. Administrative Reorganisation of the Scottish Health Services, p. 8
70. N.A.S., HH 101/2473, S.H.H.D. paper. 'Reorganisation of National Health Service Structure: Central Organisation', Jan. 1971
71. Scottish Office Brief on the National Health Service in Scotland, pp. 2, 5
72. N.A.S., HH 101/3605, letter from S.H.H.D. to Dept. of Health. Dublin, 8 Feb. 1968
73. appended article from Medical News, 4 Feb. 1966
74. letter from Dept. of Health, Dublin to S.H.H.D., 20 Feb. 1968
75. Hansard. 5, Commons, dclxi (4 June 1962), cols. 105-6, 114
76. N.A.: P.R.O., T 227/1322. letter from John Boyd-Carpenter to Michael Noble, 25 March 1963; memorandum, 29 March 1963
77. N.A.: P.R.O., MH 80/60, extract from Hansard with handwritten additions
78. G. McCrone. Scotland's Economic Progress 1931-60: a Study in Regional Accounting (University of Glasgow Social and Economic Studies, iv, 1965), Table iv. 34; Table vi. 105
79. N.A.: P.R.O., T 227/13 18, letter from the Treasury to the D.H.S., 11 Jan. 1961
80. N.A.: P.R.O., T 227/13 [9, memorandum on impending meeting with D.H.S., 15 March 1961
81. N.A.: P.R.O., T 227/13 19, notes of a meeting held at the Treasury on Friday. 17 March 1961
82. N.A.: P.R.O., T 227/1318, memorandum, 31 Jan. 1961
83. N.A.: P.R.O., T 227/1319, memorandum, 16 March 1961
84. S.H.H.D. Doctors in an Integrated Health Service, p. lo
85. Klein, ch. 3
86. N.A.S., HH 101/2043, memorandum, 'Hospital Building Programme'. 23 March 1961. Author's emphasis in quotation
87. Webster, The Health Servcies Since the War, ii. 104. 108. 195
88. N.A.S., HH 101/3424, S.H.H.D. Finance Dept., 'Gross cost of the Health Service -Scotland v England and Wales', 22 July 1965
89. N.A.S., HH 101/3461. draft letter from the Secretary of State for Scotland to the chairman of the Western Region Hospital Board, Oct. 1965
90. on the developments in the hospital programme see S.H.H.D., Review of the Hospital Plan for Scotland [Cmnd. 2877], H.C, (Edinburgh. 1966), xiii. 151
91. N.A.S., HH 101/3424, 'Review of Hospital Building Programme' - notes of S.H.H.D. meeting, 1 Feb. [965, led by Mrs. Hart. Author's emphasis in quotation
92. N.A.S., HH 101/2429, S.H.H.D. memorandum, 'N.H.S. reorganisation: control of capital expenditure', 7 March 1972
93. N.A.S., HH 101/3216, letter from Ministry of Health to D.H.S., 30 Nov. 1961. 74 Administrative Reorganisation of the Scottish Health Services, p. 6
94. N.A.S., HH 101/2067/1-6, file of S.H.H.D. bulletins collectively entitled 'Integration of the Scottish Health Services' (Nov. 1972), no. 1, p. 2
95. N.A.: P.R.O., MH 133/475-480, and MH 82/9
96. also, Acton Soc. Trust. Hospitals and the State, i: Background and Blueprint (1955). p. 27
97. N.A.: P.R.O., MH 80/58, letter from Haddow. D.H.S.. to Ministry of Health, 27 March 1951
98. Webster, The Health Services Since the War, i. 177ff
99. N.A.: P.R.O., MH 80/78, memoranda. 22 Dec. 1960 and 3 Jan. 1961
100. Webster, The Health Services since the War, i. 65
101. McTavish, p, 157
102. S.H.H.D., Structure and Management of the N.H.S. in Scotland (Edinburgh, 1979), p. 9
103. D. Hunter and P. Williamson, 'General management in the N.H.S.: comparisons and contrasts between Scotland and England', Health Services Management, lxxxvii (1991), 170, 167
104. A. Bruce and T, Forbes, 'From competition to collaboration in the delivery of health care: implementing change in Scotland', Scottish Affairs, xxxiv (2001), 107-24, at p. 109
105. See above, p. 400