The National Health Service
1948 1948 1940s 38 pages visitor, but they must be available, and it is now the duty of the Local Health Authorities to see that they are. Protection, Welfare, Social Care The home patient may also need sick-room equipment, extra bedding, special food, or care during convalescence. A father�...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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London : His Majesty's Stationery Office
1948
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| Summary: | 1948
1948
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visitor, but they must be available, and it is now the duty of the Local Health Authorities to see that they are. Protection, Welfare, Social Care The home patient may also need sick-room equipment, extra bedding, special food, or care during convalescence. A father's illness may leave his family in difficulties ; a mother's may make domestic help essential. Children may need to be sent away to avoid infection. Work under special conditions may be needed for a man with some disability such as tuberculosis. Sick and injured people and expectant mothers have to be transported from home to hospital and back again. Arrangements have to be made for the supervision and occupation of mentally defective children. There is constant need to help some parents to understand how they can rear healthy children and for education of ordinary families in the elementary rules of personal health and the avoidance of infection. The doctor has his part to play in all this educative, protective and welfare work, but it is the special held of the Local Health Authority, which reinforces the efforts of the hospital and the family doctor with various supplementary and welfare services. In the past these local protective and welfare services were divided piecemeal between many different types of authority. Now the duty of providing them is laid upon the major local authorities —the 62 county councils and the 83 county borough councils — with the help of a Government grant. To repeat what was said at the end of Chapter 1, each of these councils is now the single Local Health Authority for its area, employing a Medical Officer of Health and working through a health committee of the council. The Ministry has asked all councils to co-opt to their health committees members proposed by the local medical committee, as well as various other experts and representatives of local hospital management committees and the Executive Councils. Most councils have strengthened their health committees in this way. Personal Service at Home Under the Health Act the Local Health Authority has the duty of seeing that the family is properly served without charge in its own home by midwives, home nurses, and health visitors. In the case of the midwife this duty is not new, but big changes are being made in the maternity services. The home (or district) nurse is a well-known and invaluable member of the health team, but never before has it been anyone's to see that her services are available. Almost everywhere district nurses have been provided by voluntary associations which local authorities have had limited power to help; almost everywhere they are 17
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