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FAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION
The North West London Branch of this Association holds
sessions in Council health clinics and in hospitals
serving the Borough. The Council and the hospitals
concerned provide free use of premises, and as already
described the Council meet the cost of certain of those
who attend. It also meets the cost of those seen by the
domiciliary service.
1. The sessions held are as follows
Cloister Road Clinic, Acton. - 4 sessions per week
(3 double doctor)
- includes weekly
session for I.U.D. and
monthly sessions for
marital difficulties).
Perivale Maternity Hospital, -2 sessions per week
Peri vale (includes one session
for I.U.D.)
Northcote Clinic, Southall -1 session per week,
(double doctor)
Mattock Lane Clinic, Ealing -2 sessions per week
(1 double doctor)
Northolt Grange Clinic, -1 session per week
Northolt
Queen Victoria Hospital, -1 session per week
HanwelI
2. In addition, a further weekly session is held at
Hillingdon Hospital at the same time as the postNatal
clinic. This provides a service for those
hospital patients who live in the Southall area of the
Borough, the normal arrangements being for them to
attend once at Hillingdon, and then to be transferred
to Northcote Clinic. Separate figures for Ealing
residents who attend at the hospital session are not
available.
3. A domiciliary service is avai lable and is designed
for those women who fail or who are reluctant to attend
clinic sessions. These are usually the very women who
it is most important should have advice.
FUTURE DEVELOPMENT
Family Planning is becoming an increasingly important
part of the Council's maternity and child health service
and should be seen not as a project in isolation but as
complementary to the other parts of that service which
aim to improve the quality of domestic life. The present
review is being conducted on the principle that
expansion should be directed towards ensuring that:-
1. facilities are evenly spread throughout the Borough.
2. at those clinics where the pressure is greatest there
shall be additional sessions or relief provided by
additional sessions at neighbouring clinics.
3. there is a sufficient increase in sessions to permit
publicity.
4. special provision is made for those groups who do
not readily attend family planning clinics.