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Types of Care given
Number of injections 32,923
Number of dressings 13,491
Number of visits for general nursing care 23,719
Number of baths 9,949
The remaining visits were made to patients needing supervision and/or support.
Marie Curie Memorial Foundation. Area Welfare Grant Scheme
The Borough continues to participate in the Area Welfare Grant Scheme providing
for the urgent needs of cancer patients who are being nursed at home. Such
assistance is only given "in kind" and covers for a limited period, day and night nursing,
special equipment, linen and bedding, clothing, extra heating and nourishment. 26
patients received help with night and/or day nursing on 186 occasions.
HEALTH VISITING
Staff
1 Chief Nursing Officer.
1 Superintendent Health Visitor.
21 Health Visitors (includes 2 Field Work Instructors).
3 (1.6)* Part-time Health Visitors.
9 (3.5)* Part-time Clinic Nurses.
1 Health Assistant.
1 Tuberculosis Health Visitor.
1 Student Health Visitor.
* equivalent whole time.
Recruitment of health visitors has not been easy. This is probably largely because
there is a national shortage. Competition from other professions requiring women with
similar personality and educational qualities as health visiting seems to be increasing.
Four new officers have however commenced during the year, including one student
who successfully completed training and passed her examination. We are sponsoring
a further student for the 1966/67 training course.
One health visitor attended a course for field-work instructors. We now have
two suitably qualified to do practical training of health visitor students, and can undertake
practical training for up to three student health visitors at a time.
We continue to receive student nurses from West Middlesex, The Middlesex and
Richmond Royal hospitals to observe the work of the local health authority services.
Those from West Middlesex spend a whole week in clinics, visiting with district nurses
and health visitors and observing as many other aspects of the work of the department
as we can arrange. The nurses from The Middlesex Hospital come for three days and
those from Richmond for two days.
We have had several other visitors, including a Director of Nursing in Baltimore,
for whom the Ministry of Health asked us to arrange a programme of observation.
Three health visitors continue to attend Child Welfare sessions in the surgeries
of family doctors and it is hoped to start other schemes to develop closer association
between health visitors and family doctors.
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