| Description Of Item | From the collection of Norman Walker. The Consultative Council on Medical and Allied Services (Scotland) (1920) was established by the Scottish Board of Health under the chairmanship of Sir Donald MacAlister. Its purpose was 'to consider and make recommendations as to the systematised provision of such forms of medical and allied services as should in the opinion of the council be available for the community'. The resulting report 'A Scheme of Medical Services for Scotland (the MacAlister Report) was issued in 1920 advising that the organisation of the Scottish Health Service should 'be based upon the family as the normal unit and on the family doctor as the normal medical attendant and guardian'. The recommendations made by the MacAlister Report were later adapted by the Report of the Committee on Scottish Health Services 1936 (the Cathcart Report) one of the most notable reports shaping the future National Health Service in Scotland. |