- A1/196.
- File
- 1954, Oct. 29.
Part of Huw T. Edwards Papers
Aneurin [Bevan], House of Commons. Would like to meet up with Huw T. Edwards when he comes to London. The ambulance service became a Local Authority Service because Ab believed that it would become too highly centralised if run on national lines. The situation in Scotland is rather different: it is smaller, and it has a much larger number of teaching hospitals per head of population than England and Wales. It makes sense for the county councils to organise ambulances along with other aspects of transport organisation. All this is an interim arrangement pending the reorganised local authorities assuming total control of all aspects of hospital management. The same authority would then control the hospital and the ambulance services.