[Report 1972] / School Medical Officer of Health, Cumberland County Council.

  • Cumberland (England). County Council.
Date:
1972
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    PREFACE To the Chairman and Members of the Education Committee. Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, I have the honour to present the Annual Report on the School Health Service for 1972. The changes which these reports have, in past years, brought to your notice are now about to take place, and great care is being taken both nationally and locally to ensure that the School Health Service, itself a part of the child health service, will improve in the re-organised National Health Service. I have no doubts about this, but I also have no doubts about the necessity for even more particular attention being paid to ensuring easy communication both ways between the new Cumbria County Council and its matching Area Health Authority. This communication, both at administrative level and individual case level, is a respon- sibility of the specialist in Community Medicine, and the district community physician. I myself recognise difficulties only as opportunities when they are overcome, and am confident that the future of the school health service will more closely meet contemporary needs of school children. The future links will include statutory committees of collaboration between the two authorities, and thus the change is going to be one associated with continuity, and where progress is to be equated with tradition. The following pages indicate the prime importance of team work in all aspects of health care. The team includ- ing child, parents, teachers, doctors, dentists, nurses and members of professions supplementary to medicine, has been successful in its work in the past. In the future it is expected that, based increasingly on Assessments Units in District General Hospitals, it will continue as the basic unit of individual case diagnosis, treatment, and also for prevention.