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We have just received a note from Dr. Clifford M. Scott of London. We are reproducing it in toto since we are sure it will be of interest to our readers.
“Since July 5th, 1948, ‘the appointed day,’ when the National Health Service Act came into force in Great Britain, the London Clinic of Psycho-Analysis has continued to function as before that date. The Ministry of Health ‘claimed’ the Clinic with the view of making it part of the nationalized scheme of hospitals and clinics.
“The Board of the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, which governs the London Clinic of Psycho-Analysis, made representations to the Ministry of Health, chiefly based on the fact that the work of the Clinic was so closely associated with the training school of the Institute, and, as a result, the Clinic was ‘disclaimed,’ along with many other special hospitals and clinics. Thus the London Clinic of Psycho-Analysis became one of the ‘disclaimed institutions.
“The Ministry of Health is still to some extent financially interested in the work done in the ‘disclaimed institutions’ and at times makes grants in aid towards the expense of in- or out-patient treatment. When the negotiations going on at present are completed, some financial help may be given to the Clinic by the Ministry of Health.
“A few members, associate members and students hold part or full time post in nationalized hospitals or clinics. In these posts part or all of their work is psycho-analytic.
“Patients frequently ask if grants in aid for the cost of private treatment are available under the National Health Service Act. The Act does not allow any grants in aid for private treatment. The only out-patient psycho-analytic treatment available under the National Health Service Act is given by psycho-analysts on the out-patient staff of some nationalized hospital or clinic.”