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Courses were undertaken for :
The British Red Cross — Health and Hygiene
Leaders of youth organisations — Home Safety
Teachers at Teachers Centre — First Aid
Infectious Diseases
Pre-retirement Association — Health in Retirement
In-Service Training in Health Education
The following courses were arranged for staff and others :
A one day course in poster and display for clinic nurses.
A three day course for Health Visitors and Midwives on psychophysical
preparation for childbirth.
A five day course in teaching method for health visitors.
A single session for General Practitioners and Health Department Staff on
Smoker's Withdrawal Clinics.
Health Education staff also participated in the following courses :
Training of Pupil Midwives
Training of Auxiliary Nurses
In-Service Training of Health Department staff
Student Health Visitor Training
Home Nurse Training
In addition the Health Education Officer was engaged in outside lectures at
Barnet College of Further Education, North London Polytechnic, London Boroughs
Training Committee, Royal College of Nursing and represented the Borough in the
Greater London Home Safety Council Meetings.
First Aid Championships
An inter-boroughs first aid championship was organised by another Borough and
eliminating contests were arranged by the Health Department to find the representative
team from this Borough.
Smokers Withdrawal Clinics
Two further courses were held using the Five Day Plan and followed by a reunion
of participants after six weeks. Each had approximately the same success rate as
those held in previous years i.e. 60%. success after 6 weeks. The long term results of
the 1971 clinics will be be known until 1973.
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