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There is an excellent rapport with the geriatric liaison Health Visitor,
who attends Harrow Hospital. Short stay admission may be arranged to
relieve relatives both at Northwick Park and Edgware General Hospitals.
Health Education
Several Health Visitors have participated in Health Education in
Junior and Secondary schools. Films and other visual aids have been
used, and many pupils have joined discussion groups, in one school the
parents were invited to attend. In some areas pupils visited child health
clinics, playgroups and a nursery school.
Subjects covered included: personal health and development, general
hygiene, human relationships, community health, mothercraft including
care of the child in health and sickness, health and social services, first aid,
health in developing countries and lifemanship.
A total of approximately 183 teaching sessions were given at school
and approximately 720 pupils taught.
Evening lectures were given by Health Visitors to groups of young
people on human relationships, social discussions, also in preparation
for the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme. Talks were given for the Red
Cross to adults and cadets.
Talks were also given to mothers of children attending playgroups,
playgroup leaders' courses and church groups.
Students Visits to the Area
Harrow Technical College ran a pre-nursing course, and four of their
students came to Harrow for one day to have an introduction to
community health.
Student Nurses also visited Harrow to learn about community
health care, ten came from Edgware General Hospital for one day,
fourteen from the Middlesex Hospital for two days.
A sister tutor student spent one week in the area visiting and learning
about the Health and Social services available in the Borough and the
work of the Health Visitor.
Two student teachers spent one day with Health Visitors.
A Public Health Nurse from Geneva spent two days in the Borough,
one with a Health Visiting Nursing Officer. An overseas doctor also spent
some time with the same Nursing Officer learning about the Health
Visitor's work.
Eighteen student nurses from Northwick Park Hospital visited one
day weekly for six weeks to obtain further paediatric experience by
observing children in clinics, day nurseries, and in their homes.
Integrated students from Hillingdon Hospital also gained practical
experience in the Borough.
Playgroups and Daily Minders
Until the Social Services undertook overall responsibility for child
minders and daily minders, the Chief Nursing Officer and Principal
Nursing Officer (Health Visiting) visited and assessed applicants. 71 daily
minders were visited.