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Medical Practitioner Service
The Middlesex Executive Committee has classified the different wards of the Borough into
two categories.
(1) Intermediate Area — Burnt Oak, Central, Childs Hill, Edgware, Mill Hill and West Hendon.
In these areas the number of patients on the average general practitioner's list is reasonable.
New practices may be established in such areas but the initial practice allowance is not likely to
be paid.
(2) Restricted Areas — Garden Suburb, Golders Green and Park Wards.
These are areas in which the number of doctors is adequate.
Normally applications by doctors to start new practices is not granted.
Laboratory Facilities
These are provided at the Central Public Health Laboratory, Colindale.
Specimens may be sent direct to the Laboratory by Medical Practitioners or by special collection
from the Public Health Department provided they are received not later than 3.30 p.m. Monday
to Friday and 11.0 a.m. Saturday.
I would like to express my appreciation of the work carried out by the staff at the Laboratory
who, during the course of the year, has given considerable advice and help to the Public Health
Department.
The number of samples taken in respect of milk, ice cream, domestic water supplies and
swimming pools are shown elsewhere in the report.
THE EDGWARE GROUP HEALTH SERVICES LIAISON COMMITTEE
The Medical Liaison Committee was set up in 1956 to improve liaison between the different
sections of the National Health Service. The Committee met twice last year to consider problems
of liaison and a summary is given in the report as follows —
Nursing Recruitment Poster for Display in General Practitioners' Surgeries
The Committee considered a poster submitted by the Secretary of the Hendon Group
Hospital Management Committee, which was designed for display in general practitioners' surgeries
to stimulate nursing recruitment. The poster was approved and distributed to general practitioners
in Hendon, Harrow and Wembley.
Northwick Park Hospital
The Committee supported a Resolution to the North-West Metropolitan Regional Hospital
Board submitted by the Willesden Borough Council, expressing concern at the abandonment of the
proposal to build a general hospital at Northwick Park by the Board of Governors of Charing Cross
Hospital.
The Committee were pleased to learn from the Board of Governors of Charing Cross Hospital
that the Minister of Health had informed them that a non-teaching general hospital would be built
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