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by the Superintendent Health Visitor and her staff but this
comes under the limitation of shortage of personnel and the
other pressing demands upon their time. Education for parenthood
receives greatest priority and by the nature of her work, numerous
opportunities occur for health visitors to carry out health
education at a personal level. It has been possible to undertake
sessions in some of the schools, and if more staff were available
this could be considerably extended.
Effective liaison with hospitals has been maintained by
frequent personal contacts between health visitors and medical
social workers, and by the weekly attendance of a group adviser
at St. George's hospital and at the paediatric wards of Oldchurch
and Harold Wood Hospitals.
The steadily increasing co-ordination between health
visitors and social workers of all disciplines has been maintained,
through the medium of formal case conference as well as
innumerable personal contacts. The benefits of this co-ordination
are readily apparent to those different persons who receive the
services of the Department.
Table 9 which follows, gives details of the cases visited
by the Health Visitors.