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PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICES (NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE ACT, 1946)
HEALTH CENTRES
Section 21 of the National Health Service Act, 1946 requires
local health authorities to provide, equip and maintain health centres.
There are no health centres in the borough at present but
groups of general practitioners have made approaches regarding the
extension of two existing clinics to provide accommodation for them.
Discussions are proceeding and it is hoped a start may be made in the
next financial year.
Owing to the expansion of Bedelsford School, Grange Road
Clinic will have to be relocated to make room as it is situated in the
same grounds. A site has been earmarked in Hawks Road and enquiries
were still being pursued at the end of the year about possible family
doctor interest, to build a health centre. Similar enquiries were
also being made in respect of a replacement for South Place Clinic.
A good deal of interest has been shown by family doctors in
the possibility of a health centre in Blagdon Road, New Maiden.
CARE OF MOTHERS AND YOUNG CHILDREN
Ante-natal and Post-natal Clinics
There are six Council owned clinics at which ante and postnatal
sessions are held. These are attended by medical officers and
health visitors, and most of them by midwives.
The following table gives the details, but in addition
midwives held -344 sessions at these clinics and at the Surbiton and
Maiden District Nurses Homes, at which 432 women made 1,257 attendances.
3,763 attendances were made at ante-natal, mothercraft and
relaxation classes held at the clinics listed.
There were, in addition, 176 sessions held by general
practitioners to whose practices borough midwives are attached. There
were 2,015 attendances at these sessions.