Private Hospitals

PRIVATE HOSPITALS AND THE NHS
Report of a meeting held on 08 April 1981 at the House of Commons - 8 pages

Speakers:

• Frank Dobson, MP
• Frank Honigsbaun - Historian of British Medicine
• Nick Davidson - Medical Journalist
• Dr. Brian Jarman - General Practitioner
• Dr. Paul Noone - Consultant Medical Microbiologist
• Steve Burkeman - Secretary, Central Birmingham CHC
• Terry Mallinson - Trade Unionist (COHSE) and Area Health Authority Member
• Gwyneth Dunwoody, MP - Shadow Minister of Health 

CONTENT:
Preface   .   Introduction  .  A Perspective on Recent Developments in the Health Service   .   Facts and Figures About the Growth of Private Medicine General Practitioners and Private Medicine   .   In Defence of the NHS   .  What CHCs can do to Support and Protect the NHS from the Damaging Effects of Private Hospitals   .   A Trade Union View   .   Summary and the Way Ahead