ABSTRACT
Stuart John Carne’s working career began as a house surgeon at Middlesex Hospital and he went on to become house physician, house surgeon and casualty officer at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children in Bethnal Green. Carne practised as a general practitioner in West London from 1954 to 1991. In 1957, he succeeded Aston Ridley Dale in a single-handed practice at Goldhawk Road, West London. He made many changes to the practice, becoming one of the first to have a health visitor who was employed by the local health authority, something which became common place later on. Carne’s long-term commitment to general practice has enabled him to be a member of the Standing Medical Advisory Committee (SMAC). The SMAC was a statutory advisory non-departmental public body which advised the health minister and Central Health Services on matters relating to services provided under the National Health Service Act of 1946.
