Stephen Taylor, Baron Taylor, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Stephen Taylor, Baron Taylor

British politician

Date of Birth: 30-Dec-1910

Place of Birth: High Wycombe, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 01-Feb-1988

Profession: physician, politician

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Stephen Taylor, Baron Taylor

  • Stephen James Lake Taylor, Baron Taylor (SJL Taylor) (30 December 1910 – 1 February 1988) was a British physician, civil servant, politician and educator. Born in High Wycombe, Stephen was the son of John Taylor, a civil engineer, and his wife Beatrice (Lake) Taylor.
  • Educated at Stowe School and then at St Thomas Hospital Medical School, London, where he qualified in 1934. When war broke out he joined the RNVR as a neuropsychiatrist.
  • But in 1941, the government transferred him to the Ministry of Information.
  • He worked on a plan to publish information about health services to the public during wartime.
  • From 1940 to 1944 he was Director of Home intelligence and the Wartime Social Survey in the Ministry of Information.
  • But by 1944 it appears he was already working for the Labour Party to achieve an electoral victory at the war's end.
  • Successfully elected Member of Parliament for Barnet in July 1945, he was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister and Lord President of the Council from 1947.
  • He was an expert policy advisor on the National Health Service. In 1951 he was invited by the Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust to carry out a survey of general practice.
  • He went on to make a significant contribution to the development of general practice, holding a number of positions on medical boards and other organisations, including two stints as a member of Harlow New Town Development Corporation.
  • In 1955 he was appointed medical director to Harlow health Industrial Health Service for a period of nine years.
  • But it appears was in such demand, that two years later resumed his role into retirement.
  • Taylor was instrumental in the creation of Health Centres in Harlow.
  • His model was rolled out to all major city centres across Britain, developing dental and nursing support within group practices.
  • His survey of 1954 entitled Good General Practice was based on qualitative interviews at practices already identified as performing well by Joseph Collings report, General Practice in England : A Reconnaissance, (1950).
  • NHS GP profession was still in its infancy, requiring much pioneering work to improve its services.
  • Taylor sat on the Central Health Services Council, chaired by Sir Harry Cohen, the boss of Tesco.
  • Local doctors had traditionally worked alone or in pairs, but the report resulted in group practice becoming the norm in Britain.

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