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Co-operation with Hospitals and General Practitioners
In order to effect close co-operation and liaison with hospital consultants and
general practitioners, the following advisory committees exist to assist me on aspects of
community health care in their particular field:
Psychiatric
Geriatric
Chest Physicians
Pathological
General Practitioners
Paediatric
Obstetric and Gynaecological
Venereal Disease Consultant Advisers
A further committee under my chairmanship, the Community Health Service
Liaison Committee of Southwark, is comprised of general practitioners and principal
officers of the Health Department, whose task is to assess the value of requests from
medical research groups and of health surveys and is also concerned with other health
matters of a general nature affecting general practitioners and the community.
Family Planning
A family planning service in full implementation of the National Health Service
(Family Planning) Act, 1967, continued to be provided on the following basis:
(a) No charges are made for advice or examination in all cases
(b) No charges are made for drugs and appliances supplied where a further
pregnancy would be detrimental to health
(c) Charges are made in other cases for drugs and appliances except in financially
necessitous cases
At the beginning of the year the service was provided through the agency of the
Family Planning Association. However, in accordance with the decision to provide a
direct service, the Council later assumed control of two of the clinics operating in Health
Department premises. An additional session was started in one of these.
In addition payment was continued to the Brook Advisory Centre on a per capita
basis for unmarried persons over 16 years of age residential in Southwark.
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