The Labour Party and the Nursing Profession
1927 1927 1920s 40 pages 35 PUBLIC HEALTH AND PREVENTIVE SERVICES HEALTH VISITORS. QUALIFICATIONS. The fact that health visiting is a comparatively new profession, and the frequent alterations in the regulations of the Ministry of Health for the training of health visitors have given rise to an alm...
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London : The Labour Party (London : Co-operative Print. Society Ltd.)
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35 PUBLIC HEALTH AND PREVENTIVE SERVICES HEALTH VISITORS. QUALIFICATIONS. The fact that health visiting is a comparatively new profession, and the frequent alterations in the regulations of the Ministry of Health for the training of health visitors have given rise to an almost infinite variety of qualifications. Twenty-two different certificates or varieties of experience are held by 1,074 health visitors in 88 different combinations. The regulations issued on 9th February, 1925, contain the following significant statement: "There appears to be general agreement that as a rule the duties of a health visitor can best be carried out by a woman who has been trained as a hospital nurse, is a certificated midwife, and has passed through a special course of training to equip her with a knowledge of the preventive and public health aspects of her work." The majority of local authorities show a marked preference for health visitors who have had this training. An alternative course of training is accepted by the Ministry of Health, viz.:— (1) Two years' course at a recognised training school with practical work in co-operation with the local authority. (2) Six months' training in a hospital (General, Fever or Children's). (3) C.M.B. certificate. After April 1st, 1928, no woman will be appointed as a health visitor for the first time who has not taken one or other of these trainings, and has passed the qualifying examination of the Central Examining Body approved by the Ministry of Health, which is at present the Royal Sanitary Institute. DUTIES. Originally a health visitor was concerned mainly with home visiting under the Notification of Births Act, 1907, and other duties in connection with the welfare of expectant mothers and of infants and of children under school age. The health visitor now undertakes in some areas other duties such as those of a school nurse or tuberculosis nurse. In other areas health visitors also undertake the inspection and supervision of midwives and the visitation of homes in cases of infectious diseases and other duties of sanitary inspectors. SALARIES (Cost of Living Figure — 80). LONDON. — In London there is a Whitley Council scale for health visitors of £150, rising by £10 per annum to £250, with the addition of bonus on the Civil Service scale. With the cost of living figure at 80, this is equal to £244 13s. 10d. to £377. This scale has been adopted by only nine of the Metropolitan Boroughs. In the remaining Boroughs, minimum salaries vary from £200 to £257 and maximum salaries from £250 to £338, including bonus. PROVINCES. — There are no Whitley Council scales for health visitors in force in the provinces, and there appears to be no guiding principle whatsoever for determining salaries. There are 91 different minimum or fixed salaries in force varying from £120 to £244 13s. 10d. More than two-thirds of the local authorities included in the investigation pay minimum salaries of less than £200 per annum, while more than half pay maximum salaries of £200 or less. The average minimum salaries are £166 15s. 4d. (excluding London). The average minimum salaries are £172 16s. 3d. (including London). The average maximum salaries are £189 15s. (excluding London). The average maximum salaries are £217 (including London).
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