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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 has been in progress on the extension at the Manor Drive, Worcester
Park, Clinic and 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 for the
building of a clinic and it is hoped that work will commence in 1971.
A site has been earmarked for a clinic to replace South Place
Clinic j, and a site is being sought for a health centre 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 106 sessions at these clinics and at the Surbiton and
Maiden District Nurses Homes, at which 146 women made 309 attendances.
5,297 attendances were made at ante-natal, mothercraft and
relaxation classes held at the clinics listed.
There were, in addition, 235 sessions held by general practitioners
to whose practices borough midwives are attached. There were 2,342
attendances at these sessions.