Report of the Standing Committee on the Rehabilitation and Resettlement of Disabled Persons.

  • Great Britain. Standing Committee on the Rehabilitation and Resettlement of Disabled Persons.
Date:
1946
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Credit: Report of the Standing Committee on the Rehabilitation and Resettlement of Disabled Persons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which will be required as an integral part of the new Health Services :— 1943 1944 1946 Hospitals possessing all facilities for active rehabilitation and using them for all suitable patients ... se} ee sa 18 58 83 Hospitals with all such facilities but only using them for selected disabilities (¢.g., | traumatic) 2 ae oe ja 35 73 124 Total Hospitals with all facilities ... 48 131 204 Hospitals possessing partial facilities (e.g., remedial exercises but no occupational therapy) ... ie = eee mee oe 136 129 Total Hospitals employing active rehabilitation hg 5 ice) 267 833 The 1946 total represents 71 pér cent. of the 464 hospitals which were specially selected by officers of the Ministry of Health in 1948 as institutions at which rehabilitation departments shouid, if possible, -be set up during the war years: or 64 per cent. of the 520 larger general and special hospitals reasonably be expected. 5. In Scotland, while some of the larger voluntary hospitals had facilities war largely at the Emergency Hospitals run by the Department of Health, Hospital Scheme. These contain the majority of the special units set up under the Scheme—neuro surgery, orthopedic surgery, plastic surgery, &c. At each hospital rehabilitation departments have been developed according to the needs of the institution. There is also the special Fitness Centre at Gleneagles which, originally catering specially for miners, now accepts any male civilian patients. A sub-committee of the Scottish Medical Advisory Committee has been considering ‘‘the type of conditions for which rehabilitation facilities should be provided in a comprehensive medical service in Scotland and the nature and extent of the further facilities required.’’ Its report has been published.(‘) The Department is now proceeding to assess the existing facilities for rehabilitation and to ascertain at whic hospitals they might best be developed in the future. SPECIAL CENTRES FOR CARDIAC CASES (PARA. 24) 6. The main field for action in the establishment of special centres for cardiac cases is in the age groups of 18-25, but it was difficult to do much possibility of starting a joint scheme as a war-time experiment for young an approach was made to the London County Council to see whether accom- modation could be made available in their area. The Council agreed to start an experimental scheme at the Northern Hospital, Winchmore Hill. but this had to be deferred owing to enemy action, and the fact that the of war. The Council’s staffing difficulties are still acute and it has not yet been possible to set up a Centre. (1) “ Rehabilitation—The Report of the Medical Advisory Committee (Scotland).” H.M.8.0., 1946. Price 6d. net. . visory Committee (Scotland)