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Old People's Home.
Greater Ealing Old People's Home,, Northolt House,
Haydock Avenue, Northolt.
Private Surgeries
120 Uxbridge Road, Hanwell, W, 7.
234 Northfield Avenue, Ealing, W, 13,
25b Church Road. Hanwell, W. 7.
129a Greenford Avenue, Hanwell, W. 7.
49 Little Ealing Lane, Ealing, W, 5.
In addition, treatment is given in their homes to
housebound patients. There is a considerable demand for
this service but it has been possible to avoid a waiting
list. The charge to the patient is 2/6d. for attention to
both feet where necessary.
The total attendances were as follows:-
Total number of individual patients 465
Total number of treatments 2,000
Number of patients receiving
domiciliary treatment 284
Number of domiciliary treatments 1,200
In April of this year the County Council formulated
its policy with regard to a Chiropody Service which it is
to run under Section 28 of the National Health Service
Act. The County Council decided to replace the existing
scheme, run by the British Red Cross Society, by a scheme
employing County Council Chiropodists working at Clinics.
It has been arranged that there shall be a gradual run
down9 the British Red Cross Society agreeing not to accept
new patients, but to refer requests to the Area Health
Office.
It is hoped that this transition will work smoothly.
However,, certain difficulties have already arisen* Whereas
the charge has, until now been 2/6d. for both feet, the
charge under the new scheme is 8/-. Although it is true
that this is reduced, and even waived in necessitous
cases, difficulty has been experienced in explaining the
reason for the increased charges to those patients who
are now having to pay them.
The second difficulty which has arisen is in respect
of domiciliary treatments. These represented a large proportion
of the British Red Cross Society service and are
not available under the County Council's scheme. Although
it is appreciated that domiciliary treatment is expensive