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National interest has been shown in this educational
project and enquiries for more information have been received from
the following Authorities:
Nottingham, Doncaster, Southeni,
and from Newfoundland, Canada.
Nursing Aids and Medical Equipment
The borough provides certain equipment and aids for long
term loan to patients. This equipment includes special beds and
mattresses, Easi Nurse special beds, hydraulic hoists, ripple beds
and cushions, medical sheepskins and slings, and portable pulleys
and suckers.
Disposable aids for incontinent patients are also issued free.
HEALTH VISITING
The health visiting establishment has remained at 30
during 1972. This has proved to be inadequate because of the change
in the pattern of the work. The health visitors are all now
responsible for visiting families on the lists of general practitioners
within the local authority boundary. This has involved
greater travelling as well as a ohange in the pattern of visiting.
In previous years, the health visitor's main role was in the care of
young children and the elderly, but during 1972 at the request of
the general practitioners, they have visited and advised families
in the following categories as well as coping with normal case loads:
Visits
1 Elderly persons 920
2 Patients put on waiting list
for hospital admission 68
3 Patients discharged from hospital 148
4 Ante-natal patients 1,145 (388 referred
by G.P)
5 Families in which there was a
recent bereavement 195
6 Families in which the breadwinner
was unemployed 119
7 Households where home accidents
necessitating medical care had
occurred 85
8 Marital problems 178
9 Mental illness and depression 154