The creation of the Faculty of Community Medicine (now the Faculty of Public Health Medicine) of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom

The National Health Service Act 1946 transferred responsibility for the non-voluntary hospitals and certain clinical services from the public health departments of counties and county boroughs to new regional hospital boards, thereby substantially reducing the functions of their medical officers of health and creating a separate cadre of doctors concerned with the planning and management of hospital and specialist services. At around the same time there was pressure to develop in each medical school a department of social and preventive medicine with full-time staff involved in research work. Reviewing the situation 20 years later, the Royal Commission on Medical Education recommended that doctors in public health, medical administration or related teaching and research should form a single professional body concerned with the assessment of specialist training for and standards of practice in 'community medicine'. Immediately after the publication of the Commission's Report in 1968, J. N. Morris invited leaders in the three strands of activities to meet and discuss the proposal. A series of informal meetings led to the setting up, in 1969, of a Working Party (chairman, J. N. Morris) which negotiated with the Royal Colleges of Physicians of Edinburgh, Glasgow and London for them to create a faculty of community medicine. In November 1970 the Colleges set up a Provisional Council (chairman, W. G. Harding), later Board, and the Faculty formally came into existence on 15 March 1972. The key decisions and some of the complications and hitches encountered in achieving this radical outcome are described in this paper

Reconsidering cooperatives : lessons for Maltese co-ops

The principal legislation governing co-operative societies in Malta is the Co-operative Societies Act which was passed by Parliament in 2001. It was brought into force in stages the following year. The 2001 Act has repealed and replaced the co-operative legislation that preceded it, namely the Co-operative Societies Act 1978. This recent reform and the introduction of new legislation for co-operatives offers, in the view of the writer, a timely opportunity for a fresh look at the subject of co-operative law, and how co-operatives in Malta are or should be regulated in the 21st century. This paper reviews some of the main features, innovations and improvements in the new Act and offers a brief analysis of the significance and impact of the transition from the now repealed Act of 1978 Act to the 2001 Act. It attempts to place this transition within the context of other recent developments in Maltese corporate law especially the adoption of the Companies Act of 1995. Highlighting certain elements in the legislation that tend to be overlooked, the paper explores the motivation behind the recent reforms.peer-reviewe

Book Review: From Crisis to Reform: A New Legal Aid Plan for Ontario

This is a review of From Crisis to Reform: A New Legal Aid Plan for Ontario, a report funded by the Donner Canadian Foundation

Focal Spot, Summer 1997

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