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COMMUNITY NURSING SERVICES
Staff as at 31st December, 1972
1 Chief Nursing Officer.
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1 Non-Medical Supervisor of Midwives 2
and Home Nursing Superintendent.
1 Deputy Non-Medical Supervisor of 14
Midwives and Home Nursing
Superintendent. 27
2 Full-time Midwives. 1
1 Part-time Midwife.
(0.5)* 31
11 Full-time District Nurses/Midwives.
1 Part-time District Nurse/Midwife.
(0.5)* 6
1 Full-time Senior District Nurse. 3
37 Full-time District Nurses. 11
4 Part-time District Nurses. 1
(2.0)* 3
Full-time District Nurse
Assistants.
(7)* Part-time District Nurse
Assistants.
Sitters-In.
Superintendent Health
Visitor.
Health Visitors (includes 3
Field Work Instructors, 2
Group Advisers).
(2.2)* Part-time Health Visitors.
Full-time Clinic Nurses.
(5.3)* Part-time Clinic Nurses.
Tuberculosis Health Visitor.
Student Health Visitors.
* equivalent whole-time.
MIDWIFERY SERVICE
Training
Six midwives were approved as teachers and one midwife attended a refresher course
as required by the rules of the Central Midwives Board. Twenty-four student midwives
from Queen Charlotte's Hospital and West Middlesex Hospital completed their domiciliary
phase of the single period midwifery training.
Transport
All the domiciliary midwives drive cars. One uses a Council vehicle; the remainder
have their own cars.
Ante-natal Clinics
Total weekly sessions during year (midwives only present) 133
„ „ „ „ „ (medical officer present) 161
„ „ „ „ „ at family doctors' clinics 345
„ „ „ „ „ at hospital clinics 51
Deliveries attended by Domiciliary Midwives
Changes in midwifery patterns are reflected in the figures given below. More and
more mothers are having their babies in hospitals and some of these women are attended
by the community midwives.
Number of deliveries attended:—
In the home 107
In hospital 53
Early discharges attended : 461.
The majority of discharges before the tenth day were planned.
All midwives in the domiciliary service are asked to see that patients having home
confinements have made arrangements with their own family doctor or another practitioner
on the obstetric list. Doctors were booked for all the 107 patients delivered at
home.
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