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Council invited the staff to participate in their In-Service Refresher
Course and 50 attendances were made during the last week of
April. In addition, discussions, seminars and short courses on
various aspects of the work have been attended by various
members of staff.
Training from the Bromley Group of Hospitals and Orpington
Hospital
104 Student Nurses have been given an insight into Community
Care. 43 nurses taking special courses in obstetrics and
paediatrics have been on visits with the health visitors. 9 students
from other disciplines have accompanied the health visitors for
observation and instruction.
General Practitioner/Health Visitor Co-ordination of Work Schemes
7 Health Visitors are on Attachment Schemes.
4 Health Visitors are in Attachment Schemes plus
geographical area.
2 Health Visitors are in Liaison Schemes.
Surveys
10 Health Visitors participated in an exacting survey of the
Health Visitor's work, organised throughout Greater London by
the G.L.C. Research and Intelligence Unit, over a two-week
period in the autumn and which added considerably to their
clerical work. The results of the survey are still awaited.
72 questionnaires were completed for the National Child
Development Study, and 2 surveys were undertaken on children
born with spina bifida and allied conditions.
Daily Minder Registrations
Over 300 persons and premises have now been visited after
applications for child minding have been received, and follow-up
visits and reports have added to the work load of senior staff
and Health Visitors.
Statistics
The statistical breakdown of the Health Visitors' work
excluding 50% of their time spent on the School Health Service
is as follows:—
Children visited for the first time in the current year:—
Children born in 1969 4,739
Children born in 1968 3,207
Children born between 1964/67 6,887