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of assistance they receive with others in similar circumstances,
and to ask why, if their neighbour has a certain number of hours
per week, they cannot have the same. The circumstances relating
to various patients are rarely the same and the amount of help
provided for any individual is decided upon in their own best
interests, together with current resources. The amount of assistance
provided is subject to review at regular intervals, or at any
time when a change of circumstances is reported either by the
patient, the Home Help or from any other source.
The in-service training programme for groups of home helps,
held at the College of Technology, continued through the year.
Home Help Service
Requests for help from new cases during the year 1097
Cases not eligible for assistance or not requiring services 335
New cases helped during the year 759
Persons being helped at the end of the year 1791
Total persons helped during the year 2673
Total number of hours of help provided during the year 305184
Night Attendant Service
As previously reported, this Service is provided to give
relief to relatives having to care for seriously ill patients being
nursed at home. The number of requests for assistance varies
considerably and the number of cases which could be helped is
affected by the fact that the Marie Curie Memorial Fund provides
a similar service in this area for terminal cases of carcinoma.
The Marie Curie Scheme which is operated by the Health and
Welfare Department acting as Agents for the Fund, provided
Night Attendants for 27 cases, involving a total of 1977 hours
during the year. Details relating to patients helped through the
Council's Scheme, are as follows
Night Attendant Service
Number of Patients helped during the year 8
Number of hours for which attendants were supplied 513
Apart from the provision of nursingcare, as mentioned above,
the Marie Curie Memorial Fund also gave assistance to four
patients in the form of extra nourishment, clothing, bed linen, etc.,
and two patients were admitted to Marie Curie Homes.
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