[Report 1957] / Medical Officer of Health, Blackpool County Borough.

  • Blackpool (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1957
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Credit: [Report 1957] / Medical Officer of Health, Blackpool County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (iii) Weight Weight charts or graphs should be included in the ante-natal record. It is particularly important to note whether there is any abnormal increase in weight during the thirteenth to twentieth weeks of pregnancy. Primiparas should be weighed fortnightly and multiparas monthly. Any midwife who has difficulty in weighing any patient should send the patient to the Local Authority clinic. (iv) X-Rays. Obstetric cases for X-ray in the Blackpool area should be sent to the Consultant Obstetrician at the Victoria Hospital Ante-Natal Clinic, through which they will be referred to the Victoria Hospital X-Ray Department and the reports on the X-Rays would be sent to the patients’ General Practitioners. In Fleetwood, L57tham and St. Annes, the practitioners should arrange for X-Rays to be done at their local Hospitals. 6., HEALTH EDUCATION The Conference agreed that General Practitioners, Midwives and Health Visitors should do everything possible to impress upon their patients the importance of early and regular attendance during pregnancy. 7. STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO ANTE AND POST NATAL EXAMINATIONS. The Conference unanimously expressed dissatisfaction with the present Statutory requirements about Ante and Post Natal Examinations (two ante-natal and one post-natal) which are considered to be totally inadequate. 8. GENERAL PRACTTONERS/OBSTETRICIANS. The Conference agreed that General Practitioners on the Obstetric list should be made aware that they had contracted to do far more than the Statutory Regula- tions might lead some of them to believe. In future, only doctors who had held resident obstetrical appointments in Hospitals should be admitted to the list. All practitioners admitted to the list should have a refresher course in obstetrics at least once in five years and that the cost should be borne by the Health Service. 9. GENERAL PRACTITIONER/OBSTETRICIAN—FEES. Reference was made to the fees payable to General Practitioner/Obstetricians and it was agreed to recommend that, in cases where a practitioner who, after contracting to attend a patient in a domiciliary confinement, subsequently finds it necessary to send his patient into hospital for the confinement, the practitioner should be paid the fee he would have received had the patient not been admitted to hospital, and not a reduced fee as at present. 10. HOSPITAL ACCXIMMODATION FOR OBSTETRIC CASES (i) General Practitioner Obstetric Units. The Conference agreed, in principle, that General Practitioner MatemiW Units should be for normal cases only and that abnormal cases should auto- matically be transferred to the main hospital. It was agreed to recommend the Manchester Regional Hospital Board to provide a General Practitioner Obstetric Unit in Blackpool as soon as possible, such accommodation to be in close proximity to the main hospital. It was felt that when such unit was provided a scheme similar to that in operation in the Bristol area might, with advantage, be operated in this area. In Bristol, the patients’ own doctor and the midwife attend confinements in accommodation adjacent to the main hospital. The hospital and specialist