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Easton House Trust
Royal London Discharged Prisoners' Society
National Association for Mental Health
Central After-Care Association (The Circle Trust)
Blackfriars Settlement Occupational Work Centre
Central Council for Health Education
National Association for Maternal and Child Welfare
Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents
National Society of Children's Day Nurseries.
Ambulance Service
The London Ambulance Service continued to give most valuable assistance to
the health services both directly and indirectly, in spite of their additional commitments
and reorganisation as a result of the London Government Act.
1 am most grateful for their help in connection with the domiciliary midwifery
service and the transport of non-ambulant chiropody cases.
Staff Medical Examinations
A senior medical officer, with nursing assistance, is responsible for the medical
examinations of all the staff of the Council. The duties include the examination of
new entrants; those on extended sick leave, and those about to retire on health
grounds.
Statistics for period 1.4.65 to 31.12.65
New Entrants:—
Officers 446
Manual Workers 16
Staff absent from duty owing to sickness:—
Officers 18
Manual Workers 324
The use of medical questionnaires for assessing the fitness of applicants for
employment was commenced late in 1965 but did not become fully operative before
the end of the year.
During November and December scrutiny of 55 questionnaires resulted in 28
of the applicants concerned being called for medical examination. These are
included in the figures for the new entrants.
Finance
Making of charges and assessments
Some of the services provided by a local health authority under the National
Health Service Act, 1946 must be free of charge (as are general medical services
and hospital treatment) but a health authority may, with the approval of the
Minister, make and recover reasonable charges for services and articles provided
under sections 22, 28 and 29 having regard to the means of the persons availing
themselves of the services. The Minister, in approving the making of charges
under these sections, prescribed in Circular 100/48 that the charge should not
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