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Future Projects
It is the intention of the Directorate to establish a further
Combined Centre to accommodate 30 mentally ill and physically
handicapped persons at the former Civil Defence premises at Well
Hall during 1971. Moreover, the property at 6 St. John's Park,
when adapted as a hostel during the coming year, will provide
places for a further 20 mentally ill adults.
Psychiatric Services, Clinics, etc.
Out-patient clinics for psychiatrics are held as follows :—
Greenwich District Hospital
St. Nicholas Hospital
Woolwich Memorial
Hospital
Monday p.m.
Tuesday a.m. (Children's
Diagnostic Clinic)
Wednesday p.m.
Thursday p.m.
Monday p.m.
Wednesday p.m.
Friday p.m.
Monday p.m.
Wednesday p.m.
Thursday
Friday a.m. and p.m.
Domiciliary visiting is carried out in most cases, for the Bexley
Hospital policy is not to admit unless patient has been seen by
one of their consultants.
Mental Hospitals apart, there are only four doctors in the
Borough approved in accordance with the Mental Health Act and
the situation would be eased considerably if more local general
practitioners could be so authorised.
Accommodation
Although the number of beds available to our psychiatric patients
is unspecified, little trouble is experienced in obtaining admission
of adults to Bexley Hospital within whose catchment area this
Borough falls. Our difficulties arise with the children for, other
than at the Maudsley Hospital which caters for the country as a
whole and is therefore very selective, no such accommodation is
available to them. Limited treatment is afforded at the Castlewood
Day Hospital.