The Trust was established in 1995 in the memory of Dr David Stark Murray for two purposes: To advance public education about the social and medical causes of ill health and to conduct, promote and further research into those causes and their effects and to disseminate the results of research to the public. To educate or promote … Read more
Wednesday 10th May 1978 7 p.m. in The Grand Committee Room, Westminster Hall, House of Commons, London, S.W.I. Dr. Maurice Miller, MP, Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party Health Group took the chair and represented the Labour Party. In opening the proceedings Dr. Miller said it was fitting that the memorial meeting to Dr David Stark … Read more
Obituary of David Stark Murray from Socialism and Health September 1977 NHS Pioneer There will be few members of the SMA who did not know or meet David Murray at one time or another, and it is hard to realise that the seemingly perenially youthful and ever active David was, after all, mortal. Following some months … Read more
from the SHA archives, Hull University D Stark Murray 176 Kew Road Richmond 21st February 1946 Confidential Rt Hon Aneurin Bevan MP Minister of Health Ministry of Health Whitehall SW1 Dear Aneurin, Many thanks for your last letter which cleared up the point about the method of payment of consultants and specialists. Your letter was … Read more
Speaker The meeting opened with an address by Debbie Abrahams MP. She gave us a brief but comprehensive summary of the difficulties we all see everywhere, every day, and tied them firmly to the Austerity policies introduced and implemented ruthlessly by the Coalition and Tory governments since 2010. Widening inequality is THE biggest issue of … Read more
2017 was a good year for the Association. We saw a big increase in our membership and our new Chair managed to organise a resolution about the NHS which was carried unanimously by the Labour Party conference to great acclaim. We finally managed to make some progress on our policy discussions, both internally and in discussion … Read more
Dr David Stark Murray Published by Victor Gollancz 1942 Introduction Medical Needs What Kind of Service Had We? What Kind of Service Have We? What Kind of Service Might We Have? Medical Service in Other Countries Proposals for the Organization of Medicine A State or a Socialized Medical Service? The Advantages of a Socialized Service … Read more
Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on Saturday 15 May 2004 at the Birmingham and Midland Institute, Birmingham Present: Paul Walker (Chair), Val Bayliss-Brideaux, Huw Davies, Christine Dore, Brian Flood, Mair Garside, Christine Hay, Constance Hunter, Tony Jewell, John Lipetz, David Mattocks, Joy Mostyn, Linda Pepper, Mike Roberts, Gavin Ross, Rosemary Ross, Hiren Roy, Rita Stringfellow, Ali … Read more
Aneurin Bevan: An appreciation of his services to the health of the people. Pamphlet published by the Socialist Medical Association about 1960 NHS debate House of Commons 30 July 1958 Local Government Management of the Hospitals, 12 March 1954 In Place of Fear 1952: (Essay on A Free Health Service) Resignation speech 23 April 1951 Cabinet Discussion 9 April … Read more
The part played by the Socialist Medical Association D. Stark Murray PEMBERTON BOOKS 1971 CONTENTS Introduction The Early Beginnings The Socialist Medical Association 1937-1942 1943-1945 1946-1950 1951-1964 1965 and the future
Dr David Stark Murray 1942 The doctor today The means at the doctor’s disposal What the patients expect What help does the general practitioner get? The specialist Could medicine do more? The chaos which is medical service today Where does the money come from? Could the money be better spent? A possible form of medical service The … Read more
These events are listed here for posterity and so you can make comments on what was said and done [events_list scope=”past” category=137 orderby=”event_start_date” order=”DESC” limit=0] If there is a record of proceedings at Socialist Health Association conferences held before March 2012 it should be listed below, but events which did not generate a record are not … Read more