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PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING AND
ALLIED SERVICES
HEALTH VISITING
Staff
At the end of the year, the staff position was:—
1 Superintendent Health Visitor.
1 Deputy Superintendent Health Visitor.
28 Whole-time Health Visitors/School Nurses.
2 Part-time Health Visitors/School Nurses.
1 Part-time Geriatric Health Visitor.
1 Whole-time Tuberculosis Health Visitor.
2 Part-time Tuberculosis Health Visitors.
1 Part-time Tuberculosis Visitor.
2 Student Health Visitors.
Two Health Visitors including the Deputy Superintendent were
promoted to senior posts with other Authorities during the year. One
Health Visitor left the Service to go abroad with her husband.
The new Deputy Superintendent was appointed from the Authority's
own Health Visiting staff, and the vacancies which arose during
the year, including one additional post on the establishment, were filled
by the sponsored Student Health Visitors, all of whom had been
successful in qualifying as Health Visitors.
Two Student Health Visitors were recruited during the year, who
commenced training in September, 1966.
There were no staffing difficulties in the Health Visiting service
during the year.
Health Visitor's Duties
During the year the emphasis by Health Visitors in their work
was on consolidating their position as members of the Health Team in
the new Borough, rather than on rapid expansion of their duties. As
always, home visiting was of paramount importance, and increasingly
it was found that the Health Visitor was able to introduce colleagues
from other Sections and Departments into homes where difficulites
were beginning to arise, and where help in time prevented irrevocable
damage.
There was considerable increase in co-operation between workers
in allied fields of work, which led to better help for families with
problems, and to much less overlapping of effort. By the end of the
year, the great mobility of the Borough's population and the increasing
number of immigrants with language difficulties, made great demands
on the skill and understanding of the Health Visitors in this area.
The attachment to general practitioners has gone forward smoothly,
and by the end of the year tiiere were two full-time atachments to
general practitioners and one part-time one. The patients definitely
benefited by the united approach to their needs and no disruption
whatsoever was caused to die Local Authority's Services. Each of the
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