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With the ever increasing demand for family planning, further clinics were opened; there was an urgent need
to train more nursing staff in family planning and use was made of all available courses. Domiciliary family
planning was taken over by the Borough from the Family Planning Association on 1st April. The report by
the nurse concerned is included in the item on this subject.
The Department of Health and Social Security asked all local health authorities to implement a nurse
management structure in the light of the Mayston report,which was approved by the Personnel Committee
in November and is gradually being implemented.
1974 is not far distant, with all the changes it will bring to the health service of the country, including
nursing services, but - to quote James Thurber - "Let us not look back in anger nor forward in fear, but
around us in awareness" for the benefit of the service we are hoping to give to the community.