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In pursuit of this integration, liaison schemes whereby the Health
Visitors attend the paediatric departments of Edgware General and
Kingsbury Maternity Hospitals and the geriatric wards at Roxbourne
Hospital continued during the year. The out-patient psychiatric clinic
set up in collaboration with the North West Regional Hospital Board at
the Caryl Thomas Clinic has proved to be of tremendous value to all
concerned. Finally, in the liaison field, a start was made during the year
to "attach" members of the borough nursing staff to general practitioners
working in group practices. In an urban area this last scheme is fraught
with difficulties associated with such things as availability of staff, distribution
of doctors' patients, willingness to co-operate and generally must
of necessity, be restricted to doctors working in a group. However, a
start has been made and plans for expansion were under consideration
during the year.
Several new projects were completed and brought into use during
the year. In April the new clinic was opened at Tenby Road. This clinic
was built to provide clinic facilities in the Stanmore South Ward and
replace those previously provided in All Saints Church Hall. Although
very grateful to the Church authorities for permitting the use of their
hall, it could not be considered as really suitable for clinic purposes.
Finding a suitable site proved to be an extremely long drawn out and
difficult task but eventually a site alongside the assembly hall in Tenby
Road was allocated and building work commenced in 1965. All services
are provided at the clinic and as the assembly hall is used as a luncheon
and social club for elderly, plans are being considered to run an advisory
health clinic in the neighbouring clinic building which the old people
could easily attend.
Whyteways, a new designated Home for the Elderly in Brookshill,
Harrow Weald, was also completed during the year. This home provides
accommodation for 60 elderly people and by the end of the year 27 were
in residence—the admission rate having once again to be geared to the
number of staff available. The third project was the opening in September
of the transition class at Tanglewood. This class of 20 places is run in
conjunction with the Junior Training School for mentally-handicapped
children. It serves several purposes such as taking cases at present on the
waiting list for Uxbridge Adult Training Centre and also taking children
from the senior class at the Junior Training School so allowing admissions
lower down the school from the waiting list of younger children. The
transition class concentrates on basic social training with the idea of
enabling the older children to become more independent than in the past
and acts as a maturing phase between the rather "sheltered" academic
life of the school to the full day's work under factory conditions of the
centre.
In line with the development plan for health and welfare services,
work commenced in August on the new Residential Home for the Elderly
at Sancroft Road, Harrow Weald and completion of this project is