The influence of the staff of the Ministry of Health on policies for nursing 1919-1968
This thesis examines the role and influence of the administrative Civil Service on the development of policies on nursing and the role played by the nurses employed on the staff of the Ministry of Health. The period studied is the life time of the Ministry of Health, 1919- 1968. Throughout this period nurses were employed within the Ministry in various types of advisory roles. It was also a period when Ministers of Health, and consequently their Civil Servants, had legislative responsibilities and policy interests in the adequate provision of nursing services in hospital and public health services. - The main hypothesis addressed here is that throughout this period, the administrative Civil Service demonstrated a more constructive and realistic view of nursing and of the conthbution made by nurses to the delivery of health care services than the profession's own representatives and leaders. During this period there were five nursing issues which appeared as matters of concern to the Ministry, and while these issues were of concern to central government they could also have been expected to be of central importance to the nursing profession. These issues were nurse registration, recruitment, remuneration, education
Scott, Elizabeth J. C.
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The influence of the staff of the Ministry of Health on policies for nursing 1919-1968. This thesis examines the role and influence of the administrative Civil Service on the development of policies on nursing and the role played by the nurses employed on the staff of the Ministry of Health. The period studied is the life time of the Ministry of Health, 1919- 1968. Throughout this period nurses were employed within the Ministry in various types of advisory roles. It was also a period when Ministers of Health, and consequently their Civil Servants, had legislative responsibilities and policy interests in the adequate provision of nursing services in hospital and public health services. - The main hypothesis addressed here is that throughout this period, the administrative Civil Service demonstrated a more constructive and realistic view of nursing and of the conthbution made by nurses to the delivery of health care services than the profession's own representatives and leaders. During this period there were five nursing issues which appeared as matters of concern to the Ministry, and while these issues were of concern to central government they could also have been expected to be of central importance to the nursing profession. These issues were nurse registration, recruitment, remuneration, education
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