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Most of the residents in the Borough would attend the following Hospitals: —
Bexley Hospital, Dartford Heath, Bexley
Brook General Hospital, Shooters Hill Road, S.E.18.
Darenth Park Hospital, Dartford, Kent.
Joyce Green Hospital, Dartford, Kent.
Memorial Hospital, Shooters Hill, S.E.18.
Oakwood Hospital, Maidstone, Kent.
St. Nicholas Hospital, Tewson Road, Plumstead, S.E.18.
West Hill Hospital, West Hill, Dartford.
CO-ORDINATION AND CO-OPERATION WITH
HOSPITALS AND FAMILY DOCTORS
The second Green Paper was published in February and in its foreword the Secretary of
State for Social Services indicated several Governmental decisions, one of which pointed clearly
to an integration of the personal health services.
In the previous Annual Report for Bexley reference was made to the full co-operation
which had been maintained in the Borough between the Health & Welfare Department and the
various hospitals and local medical practitioners. Professional, traditional or statutory links existed
and in recent years others were fostered. Subject to Council approval, the Medical Officer of
Health was able to make any of the services of the Department available to the other branches
of the National Health Service, or to seek the co-operation of these other branches in the
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