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Right of Appeal of Voluntary Organisations.
32.—The Council are required to transmit a copy of the scheme they send to the Minister to each
of the organisations which have been consulted.
If a voluntary association which employs domiciliary midwives in the area is dissatisfied with the
Council's scheme they may appeal to the Minister within two months from the date the Council submit
their proposals to the Minister. The Minister, as he thinks fit, after consulting the authority, may
direct the Council to alter their proposals.
Recommendations.
33.—Your Committee recommend :—
(a) That the foregoing report and proposals contained therein be approved and adopted.
(b) That the report as approved and adopted by the Council be submitted to the Minister
of Health.
(c) That a copy of the report as approved and adopted by the Council be forwarded to
Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital, Kilburn, and West Hampstead District Nursing
Association, Willesden District Nursing Association, the North-West Middlesex branch
of the Midwives' Institute and the Willesden Division of the British Medical Association.
January, 1937.
N. M. COWAN,
Chairman.
APPENDIX I.
Heads of Agreement to be made between the Corporation of Willesden as the Local Supervising
Authority under the Midwives Acts, 1902-36, and the Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital.
1.—The Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital (hereinafter called " The Hospital ") undertakes
to employ for the area indicated in the first column of the First Schedule the number of certified
midwives specified in relation thereto in the second column of the schedule, and in addition undertakes
to employ such number of certified midwives as may be necessary to provide for the temporary replacement
of such of the midwives employed for the area in question as may frcm time to time be rendered
unavailable for service.
2.—The Hospital will make such arrangements as will secure, so far as practicable, that the
number of midwives specified in the First Schedule in relation to the area are always available for
service in the area.
3.—The midwives provided under this Agreement shall be the whole-time servants of the Hospital.
4.—The midwives so employed shall be available for attendance on women in their own homes as
midwives during pregnancy, at the confinement and afterwards as may be necessary in conformity
with the rules for the time being of the Central Midwives Board.
5.—The qualifications, salaries and other emoluments paid to the midwives so employed shall be
those specified in the Second Schedule hereto.
6.—The Hospital shall supply the Authority with a list of the names and addresses of the midwives
employed by them in pursuance of this Agreement, and shall forthwith inform the Authority
of any change in the list.
7.—The Hospital shall forward to the Medical Officer of Health of the Authority on forms to be
provided by the Authority the names and addresses and such other particulars as may be required of
all cases booked for confinement by Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital under this Agreement within
48 hours of booking.
8.—The Hospital shall keep records of the cases attended by the midwives employed by them in
pursuance of this Agreement, and of the numbers of their attendances in each case.
9.—The Authority will charge fees to patients in accordance with the scale in the Third Schedule
hereto and Section 3 of the Midwives Act, 1936. The economic circumstances of patients shall not be
enquired into by the Hospital. No fees shall be accepted by the Hospital from or on behalf of any
patients attended by the midwives under this Agreement.
10.—The Hospital shall supply the Authority with such financial and other returns as the
Authority may reasonably require, including a copy of the audited annual accounts of the Hospital
and the records kept by the Hospital shall be open to inspection by the Medical Officer of Health of
the Authority or by any other officer of the Authority specially authorised for that purpose.
11.-—The Authority undertakes during the currency of this agreement to pay to the Hospital the
sum of £1,180 per annum (until the same shall be altered or varied under Clause 12 (ii) hereof) by
equal quarterly payments on the following days, viz., on the 31st day of March, the 30th June, the
30th September and the 31st December, in each year, the first payment being a proportionate part of a
quarterly payment, and amounting to £197 to be made on the 30th day of September, 1937.