Report of the Standing Committee on the Rehabilitation and Resettlement of Disabled Persons.
- Great Britain. Standing Committee on the Rehabilitation and Resettlement of Disabled Persons
- Date:
- 1946
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Credit: Report of the Standing Committee on the Rehabilitation and Resettlement of Disabled Persons. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![if ey x < ; STANDING COMMITTEE ON THE REHABILITATION AND RESETTLEMENT OF DISABLED PERSONS To :— The Right Hon. G. A. Isaacs, M._P., Minister of Labour and National Service. INTRODUCTORY 1. The Committee were appointed in January 1948, following the recom- agood -on in paragraph 115 of the Tomlinson Committee Report (Cmd. 6419) that a Committee consisting of representatives of the Departments concerned should be established to co-ordinate the*work of the Departments responsible for the many different aspects of the whole scheme of rehabilitation and resettlement of disabled persons and to secure some general supervision over its devélopment and administration. Owing to changes in Departmental duties of members, there have been several changes in ihe actual individuals representing the various Departments. In addition to the Departments regularly represented, the Service Departments have liaison officers and representatives of other Departments have attended ad hoc when matters particularly affecting their. Departments have been discussed. 2. The Committee have held nineteen meetings to date, at which the action taken by the several Departments has been kept under continuous review. They feel that the stage has now been reached at which a general account can usefully be given of the steps which have been taken to implement the recommendations in the Tcmlinson Report. This report accordingly reviews the progress which has been made to date by the Depart- ments concerned, each of which remains responsible for executive action in its own sphere. 3. The matters dealt with in Part IIE of the Report, 7.e., medical rehabilitation, either do not require legislation or fall to be dealt with in the separate legislation required to introduce a comprehensive Health Service. The positicn in respect of that legislation is that the National Health Service Bill has received its third reading; the corresponding Scottish Bill is in preparation. The Committee have followed up the recommendations of the Tomlinson Report on this subject and their con- clusions are included in paras. 4 to 13 below. The paragraph numbers in parenthesis are the paragraphs of the Tomlinson Report containing the recommendations on the subject indicated. MEDICAL REHABILITATION OF THE GENERAL GROUP OF SURGICAL AND MEDICAL CASES, INCLUDING FRACTURES AND OTHER PHYSICAL INJURIES (PARAS. 20 AND 22) 4. The Ministry of Health have conducted detailed reviews of the rehabilitation facilities available in hospitals in England and Wales. Very substantial progress has been made in the development of rehabilitation facilities in hospitals as shown by the following table and these will provide Ava (32643 ] | c](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32176612_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
