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However, under existing legislation there is only one nursing
home registered within the Borough and this provides accommodation
for 21 elderly persons.
Number of Beds
Nursing Home Mental Maternity Others
Manna Mead Nursing Home,
17. West Grove, S.E. 10 — — 21
Chiropody Services
During the year, clinical chiropody in the new Borough has
seen an attendance figure of 38,678, including 1,336 new patients,
this despite the fact that the service had to be re-arranged to
accommodate the Chief Chiropodist within the new boundaries,
following the loss of Amersham Road Clinic from the old L.C.C.
Division to the neighbouring Borough of Lewisham. The move
meant the expansion of 105 Shooter's Hill Road into a multistaffed
establishment and, after some adjustments, a four-chair
clinic was set up. The impending demolition of this building has
prevented future planning in this direction, but plans have been
made for the best disposition of rooms in the proposed new location.
Lionel Road Foot Clinic—This three-chair clinic continued
to function without full-time staff.
The scheme to offer transport to this clinic for those patients
listed by a chiropodist over the boundary as desirous of continuing
at that practice, if this Council paid, was abandoned— all preferred
to continue privately at the said practice.
Domiciliary Chiropody—The attempt to reduce the domiciliary
list of the Council of Social Service by transferring a
number of patients to a minibus service to Chevening Road, as
recommended at a meeting during the year, was not successful—
almost all had to be returned to the list and this special session
has had to be filled by new referrals and ambulant cases. The
result indicates that virtually all those persons receiving domiciliary
treatment were in need of this service.
Future arrangements will be made for all domiciliary service
to come under the auspices of the Greenwich Council of Social
Service, the Chief Chiropodist to maintain liaison with this
organization.
All roads in the Borough are within two and a quarter miles
of a multi-staffed clinic: concentration of available staff into main
clinics with clerical assistance means that more patients can receive
treatment at more frequent intervals, and, to this end, it is considered
that dilution of staff into single-handed clinics should be
kept to a minimum. The spreading of available staff throughout