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Schemes for closer working become more vital and important as we progress
towards the re-organisation of the National Health Service and the establishment of
integrated patterns of health care.
In-Service Training
Talks were arranged during the year for members of the nursing staff. These
included "Geriatric Care" by Dr. N.K.P. Singh, Consultant Geriatrician, Westminster and
St. Lukes Hospitals and "Future Development within the Health Department" by myself.
Dr. Fluker, Consultant Venereologist, West London Hospital held a study day, to which
both nursing and social work staff were invited, on "Venereal Disease".
Senior nursing staff acted as lecturers at courses which included the following:
(i) London Boroughs Training Committee
(a) Study Day "Prevention of Mental Illness"
(b) Training Course for School Nurses
(c) Re-entry Course for Health Visitors
(ii) St. Mary's Hospital — School of Midwifery
(a) "Domiciliary Midwifery"
(iii) Induction course for interviewers for the Colville Study
(iv) Greater London Conference on Old People's Welfare Course on "Help for the
Elderly"
(v) I.L.E.A. Teachers Centre — Study Day for Domestic Science Teachers "Family Life
in an Underprivileged Area".
Students and Visitors
We were pleased to welcome the following visitors undertaking study leave in this
country:—
Research Professor, WHO Fellowship from the U.S.A.
Research Fellow, WHO Scholarship from India
Child Educationalist from Institute of Child Health — U.S.A.
Social Administration — Degree Course Student
Diploma Child Health — Doctor from Australia
General Practitioner — Student trainee
Programmes of visits of observation of the work of the community nursing and
preventive services were made for the following persons:—
209 student nurses from St. Stephens & St. Charles Hospitals
34 student nurses taking the obstetric course
5 student nurses from the Middlesex Hospital
4 student dieticians from the Queen Elizabeth College
1 Community Tutor student
40 student teachers from the Froebel Institute
6 student teachers from Maria Assumpta Training College
1 Sister Tutor Diploma student
6 Nursery Nurse students
1 Child Care student
1 student probation officer
1 teacher of handicapped children
24 new entrants to the Council's service
32 schoolgirls