Soviet Union: Relations between Soviet Union and UK in Health: Including Visit of Royal Commission on the National Health Service to USSR, October 1978

A file of correspondence and reports concerning Anglo-Soviet relations on health matters. The documents cover a visit to the Soviet Union by representatives of the Royal Commission on the National Health Service; details of the British delegation; and details of their excursions to Soviet hospitals, training centres, and medical research institutes, and to the Soviet ministry of health. Other documents in the file cover the third session of an Anglo-Soviet commission on health that was established following a treaty on cooperation on medical services in 1975, which provides for reciprocal medical care for visitors, and collaboration in the study of eye diseases, influenza, and traumatology. The file also covers a conference on primary healthcare in Kazakhstan; the treatment in Britain of Soviet patients suffering from heart conditions and brain tumours; a visit by Soviet medical specialists to the United Kingdom; and an appeal from a free trade union organisation sent to Amnesty international regarding the abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union.