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Training
New Single Period Training for Pupil Midwives
Central Midwives Board approval for Bromley Hospital
Management proposals for starting the new training was somewhat
delayed, but arrangements for providing domiciliary experience
for 12 pupils every three months were completed.
Discussions concerning the new syllabus is taking place
between the Hospital Tutors and the Supervisor of Midwives.
Present Training
Our existing programme of Community Care Experience is
adequate, but improvements are constantly being considered and
implemented where desirable.
Thirty-five pupil midwives were each placed with Teaching
Midwives for three months domiciliary experience. These pupils
are drawn from Beckenham Maternity Hospital, Masons Hill
and Widmore Maternity Units, Farnborough Hospital Maternity
Unit and Queen Mary's Maternity Unit, Sidcup.
Observation and community experience were also given to:—
1. Fourteen Student Nurses.
2. Twenty Obstetric Nurses.
3. Two Midwife-Teachers Diploma Students from the Royal
College of Midwives.
4. Two Overseas Midwives.
Peri-Natal Survey
The Farnborough Hospital Peri-Natal survey is continuing;
interesting data are being produced making the tedious formfilling
by the Midwives worthwhile.
Courses
Two Midwives went to a National Childbirth Trust Seminar
of Psycho-Prophylactic preparation for childbirth. In this Borough
considerable emphasis is laid on the preparation of the mother
for labour and delivery and Midwives are given every encouragement
to hold the necessary classes.
Two Midwives went to Statutory Refresher Courses which
are compulsory each five years for practising midwives.
The Supervisor of Midwives and her Deputy both went on
Management Courses.
Accommodation
In the past pupil midwives have been placed with landladies
when working on the district. It has become increasingly difficult