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In-Service Training
Throughout the year staff in all grades continued to attend refresher
and training courses held by the various professional organisations. A
large proportion of the fees for these courses is reimbursed to the Council
by the local Government Training Board.
PROFILE OF A TYPICAL CHILD HEALTH CENTRE
SHOREDITCH HEALTH CENTRE
This Centre is situated in the south west part of the Borough and it was
proposed that it be converted to provide surgery and medical examination
accommodation for several general medical practitioners. Meetings were held
with local doctors to consider the possibility of converting the building
but local doctors were somewhat dubious about the siting, car parking and
access across the main thoroughfare of Kingsland Road. Accordingly the plan
was abandoned.
The main entrance overlooks Kingsland Road and there are side entrances
which open into Laburnum Street.
No changes were contemplated for the basement and one excellent very
large room here is ideal for use as a teaching unit, (i.e. for lectures to
students, staff meetings, the showing of films and for combined disciplined
meetings). It is also one of the best venues in the Borough for the formal
assessment of handicapped pre-school children because of its size and because
it is removed from the noise of traffic.
Ground Floor of the Main Building
The doctors' room here is just big enough for the carrying out of
developmental paediatric examinations and strip lighting has been installed.
An adjoining room would be equally suitable and the size of both is approximately
130 sq. ft.
Another part of tie ground floor incorporates a large kitchen, two
adjoining small rooms and lavatories. There is a separate entrance here.
The two rooms now allotted to the nursing officer and health visitors and
the additional staff room are ideally situated near the front entrance.
There is an additional annexe comprising a large waiting hall with four
cubicles, a doctor's room with adjoining sterilising room, a toilet and a
large room across a small passage which is ideal for the weekly special
advisory clinic, special speech therapy sessions and for use as a second
interviewing room during family planning clinic sessions.
At the rear end a partition divides off the small area which can be
used as a recovery room for the I.U. D. patients needing this.
Task Force have the use of two rooms upstairs and run their service
from this Centre.