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FACILITIES FOR TREATMENT
It has always been the policy not to duplicate facilities
for treatment available under other aspects of the National
Health Service. Thus, at the minor ailment clinics are treated
mainly plantar warts, otorrhoea and similar conditions, which
tend to be of long standing and need frequent repetition of
relatively simple nursing techniques.
Where there is a minor ailment clinic, children with other
troubles, which could be dealt with by the family doctor may be
presented and the standing instruction is that they are to be
referred to their general practitioner.
The special clinics for enuresis, remedial exercises, speech
therapy, deafness do accord with the rule stated above, as no
other authority or organisation is available to ensure as required
by the Education Act 1944 - "for securing that comprehensive
facilities for free treatment are available".
It has also been the policy when setting up any such
facilities for treatment to make certain that they are coordinated
with the hospital service and that the family doctor
is informed about patients on his medical list.
The usual tables recording attendances at these treatment
clinics is given in Appendix E, Page 58.