The National Health Service
1948 1948 1940s 38 pages One special free treatment service must be arranged for mothers, and children up to school age, by Local Health Authorities, and that is the proper care of their teeth. There is a scarcity of dentists, and mothers and children must come first. Local Health Authorities should...
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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
1940s
38 pages
One special free treatment service must be arranged for mothers, and children up to school age, by Local Health Authorities, and that is the proper care of their teeth. There is a scarcity of dentists, and mothers and children must come first. Local Health Authorities should therefore employ dentists in clinics, or arrange in other ways to give a full dental service to expectant and nursing mothers and to children until they start school, while Local Education Authorities already have the duty of providing a similar service for school children. Medical Inspection of Children in Schools The Education Department of the Council employ doctors, dentists, and nurses to watch over the children's health. The Education Authorities' duties include the periodic medical inspection of children in the schools, the 'following up' of those found to be in need of treatment, and the provision of certain forms of treatment which cannot be given so conveniently under the National Health Service. For example, minor ailment clinics are being continued as before because they provide the most expeditious means of treating these complaints and they relieve the burden on the general practitioner service. Specialist work at the school clinics, e.g. ophthalmic, aural, orthopaedic, etc., has been taken over by the Hospital and Specialist Services. Dental inspection and treatment, because its effectiveness depends so much on the close linking up of this work with the school system, continues to be a function of the Local Education Authorities ; so also will those services which are partly medical, partly educational, such as speech therapy and child guidance — though in the latter the psychiatrist in many cases will also be working under the Regional Hospital Boards. The Local Education Authority have the duty of 'ascertaining' all children in their area who on account of physical or mental handicap are in need of special educational treatment. Such children include the blind, partly sighted, deaf, partly deaf, epileptic, physically handicapped and educationally subnormal. This ascertainment in many instances necessitates examination by appropriate specialists who will usually be those conducting specialist clinics under the Hospital and Specialist Services. Once a pupil is ascertained to be handicapped it is the duty of the Authority to provide special educational treatment suited to the particular defect, either in special or ordinary schools. Health Centres A completely new local health service for which the Act makes provision is that of Health Centres. These will be buildings in which accommodation will be provided for a group of family doctors and perhaps 23
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