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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.
Work is expected to start in 1970 on the extension at the Manor Drive,
Worcester Park Clinic, and it is hoped that the new accommodation will
come into use early in 1971. Discussions are still in progress
concerning details of the accommodation to be provided in the extension
at the Hook Clinic at Gosbury Hill.
Bedelsford School is being expanded and consequently Grange
Road Clinic, which is situated in the same grounds, will need to be
replaced. A suitable site has been earmarked in Hawks Road, but as
only one general practitioner has expressed an interest in accommodation
there, plans are being made for the building of a clinic only. It is
hoped that work will commence early in 1971 and the clinic is being
planned to facilitate possible expansion to a health centre in the
future.
Sites are being sought for two further health centres, one
in Surbiton to replace South Place Clinic, and one in 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 239 sessions at these clinics and at the Surbiton and
Maiden District Nurses Homes, at which 210 women made 572 attendances.
3223 attendances were made at ante-natal, mothercraft and
relaxation classes held at the clinics listed.
There were, in addition, 193 sessions held by general
practitioners to whose practices borough midwives are attached.
There
were 1666 attendances at these sessions.