A health service for the nation
1943-03-27 1943 1940s 8 pages DIVISIONAL TREATMENT CENTRES. 28. BUILDINGS. We suggest that, as these should be equipped to deal with patients referred for more elaborate tests or treatment than are available in the local Health Centre, they will be more costly to build and equip, but will also be m...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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London : published by the Women Public Health Officers' Association
27 March 1943
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| Summary: | 1943-03-27
1943
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DIVISIONAL TREATMENT CENTRES. 28. BUILDINGS. We suggest that, as these should be equipped to deal with patients referred for more elaborate tests or treatment than are available in the local Health Centre, they will be more costly to build and equip, but will also be much less numerous than the local Health Centres. STAFFING OF DIVISIONAL TREATMENT CENTRES. 29. STAFF. (a) MEDICAL. We suggest that Divisional Treatment Centres should be staffed and administered from the Regional Hospital, of which they may be regarded as localised out-patient departments. Patients should be normally seen by appointment, the personal health record being forwarded from the local Health Centre of the district in which the patient lives. (b) NURSING. A trained nursing staff should be attached to each Divisional Treatment Centre, some of whom might undertake district nursing, perhaps alternating between Treatment Centre and District work. In any case, a staff of District Nurses for bedside nursing will be needed, and should be appointed directly by the Regional Health Authority. They should also be available at the request of a Home Doctor to nurse any of the patients attending at a local Health Centre co-operating with the Divisional Treatment Centre. In no circumstances should Health Visitors undertake bedside nursing. (c) CLERICAL STAFF. The clerical staff should be adequate to deal with all records and correspondence. (d) ALMONER. We suggest that an Almoner or trained Social Worker should work at each Divisional Treatment Centre, especially in connection with the social problems arising in the families of tubercular patients and others receiving rehabilitation treatment. 30. The Women Public Health Officers' Association offers these suggestions as the contribution of a body of women whose lives are already devoted to the cause of Public Health, believing that the health of a nation can be immensely improved by the inauguration of a complete Health Service for the Nation. Its members believe that this service should be both preventive and curative, and that, while making new curative services available to all, preventative and educational services will be best secured by building on the well-laid foundations of the existing Public Health Services. Seven
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