 An advocate of state medicine, Bourne expressed his views in "Health of the Future" (1942), which drew much attention to the issue in the medical field.After World War II, Bourne championed the admission of women students to St Mary's.He would continue serving as consulting gynaecologist at St Mary's Hospital and to the Samaritan Hospital for Women as well as consulting obstetric surgeon to Queen Charlotte's Hospital before his eventual retirement in 1951.