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Report on the British Health Services

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THIS large and heavy book of 430 quarto pages, said to contain 200,000 words, is described by its anonymous authors as a survey of the existing health services in Great Britain, with proposals for future development. The writers constitute an independent, non-party group of industrialists, distributors, local government officials, medical men, university teachers, and so forth, "who give part of their spare time"to social and economic studies, and issue fortnightly 'broad-sheet' plan-nings.

Report on the British Health Services:

a Survey of the Existing Health Services in Great Britain with Proposals for Future Development. (P E P (Political and Economic Planning).) Pp. iv + 430. (London: Political and Economic Planning, 1937.) 7s. 6d. net ; cloth, 10s. 6d. net.

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Report on the British Health Services. Nature 141, 624–625 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141624a0

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