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Telephone:
ROMFORD 66999
Health Department,
Mercury House,
Mercury Gardens,
Romford, RM1 3DS.
To: The Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the London Borough of Havering
Mr. Mayor, Ladies & Gentlemen,
I present my report on the work of. the health department of
the Borough for the year 1971.
The beginning of the year saw the separation of the social
from the health aspects of the local authorities services for the
community with the formation in April 1971 of the Social Services
department. The services with a predominant health constituent
remained with the health department, whilst those in which the
social aspect predominated passed to the social services department.
There were inevitably services which passed to the social
services department in which the health aspect remained vitally
important and liaison on such services is essential, and as
medical advisor it is hoped that close links will be maintained.
At the more local level liaison was assisted by the adoption
towards the end of 1971 of the Mayston Structure of nursing
management with the establishment of three multi-disciplinary
area nursing officers responsible under the Chief Nursing Officer
for all the nursing services in their particular area of the borough
and it is at this level that it is hoped that liaisonwith area social
work teams will be most fruitful.
In May 1971 the Consultative Document on the Reorganisation of
the National Health Services was produced outlining the proposals
for the setting up of Regional and Area Health Authoritites in
1974. This served to emphasise the need for close co-operative
and liaison links to be set up with all local authority departments
which once established can be maintained through and after the
the period of change when the present local authority health
functions, apart from Public Health Inspectorate, will pass into
the National Health Service.
Another significant change occurred in 1971 with the
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