Annual report : 1948 / Lewisham Group Hospital Management Committee.

South East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board. Lewisham Group Hospital Management Committee. nb2009003531.

Date:: 1948

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Credit: Annual report : 1948 / Lewisham Group Hospital Management Committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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It may be of interest to record that towards the end of the year all information sheet was in the course of preparation for circulation to general practitioners in the area, giving details of the procedure for the admission of patients together with other available matters of interest concerning the facilities provided under the National Health Service at the group establishments. The Management Committee was also seriously concerned at the urgent arrears of maintenance work and depletion of equipment which had arisen during the war years, and a list of the main items of works and equipment authorised during the period is set out later in this report. As it was not possible for the Management Committee to assume entire responsibility for all services as from the “ appointed day/’ agency arrangements had been made in respect of Lewisham, Park and Grove Park hospitals, the Lewisham and Southern Group Laboratories, for the London County Council to continue engineering, supplies and certain financial obligations for an interim period. Finance and certain supply agencies were terminated on 31st December, 1948, and arrangements made to terminate the remaining agencies early in 1949. The agency arrangements with the Lewisham Borough Council in respect of the former Lewisham Tuberculosis Dispensary were term¬ inated on 30th September, 1948. The thanks of the Committee are due to the London County Council and to the Lewisham Metropolitan Borough Council and to their officers for their unstinted help and co-operation during these early months.