[Report 1942] / Medical Officer of Health, Essex County Council.

  • Essex (England). County Council.
Date:
1942
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Credit: [Report 1942] / Medical Officer of Health, Essex County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Category. Trained Nurses Assistant Nurses .. Nursing Auxiliaries 1 1 38 Total. of the Civil Nursing Reserve, including those on loan from other areas, were employeodj as follows in Essex :—- Employed at Employed at Emergency First Aid Hospitals. Posts. 145 63 118 .. 4 579 .. 300 Employed in Reception Areas. 209 123 917 In addition, a small number is standing by or serving in casualty evacuation trains<n day nurseries, with district nurses, etc. The statistics given above in regard to the state of the register show a decrease on 659 when compared with the figures given in the report for the year 1941. This decreased is due almost entirely to resignations, although it is a fact that fewer recruits have beenm coming forward for instruction, but it is hoped that when the new organisation set up: by the Ministry of Labour and National Service for dealing with the shortage of nurse,qh becomes really effective there will be an increase in the numbers of recruits. During the year 1942, sixteen intensive courses of instruction, on the lines laid downpj by the Ministry of Health were held at various hospitals in the County. Two hundrec p and fifty-eight candidates attended these courses of instruction and as a result 238m nursing auxiliaries were enrolled. The matrons of hospitals have readily co-operated ii the arrangements for holding these intensive courses, and the good result obtained is in j no small measure due to their readiness to help. A member of the reserve on the Esserhj Register was appointed as Regional Sister Tutor in February, 1942, and assisted con-ini siderably in regard to these intensive courses of instruction. The Committee of the Local Emergency Organisation for the Nursing Profession;] met on four occasions during the year. Amongst other matters considered by the i Committee was the problem of the future employment of nursing auxiliaries. Another subject which was considered by the Local Emergency Committee wa.'f1 the matter of remuneration of women able to give part-time service in the Civil NursingIjj Reserve. Undoubtedly many good nurses who have other commitments would b prepared to undertake part-time service if it were paid for, but in the absence of any sue] '.sj payment they drift into other forms of war service. The Civil Nursing Reserve Advisor c< Council were, however, unable to see their way to implement a scheme for the paymenia of part-time service. It is hoped that the new arrangements for recruiting nurse 3 and midwives set up by the Ministry of Labour and National Service will overcome thil difficulties envisaged by the Local Emergency Organisation, but in the meantime, th d Ministry of Health have suggested to hospital authorities that there is no reason wh jj they should not employ nurses on a part-time basis, and pay them, if they wish to do sc J i outside the scope of the Civil Nursing Reserve. The Standing Conference of Matrons of Essex Hospitals, agreed during the year t form a panel of lecturers who could visit hospitals in the County to lecture to members c: s the Nursing Staff, including members of the Civil Nursing Reserve, on nursing matter* and hospital organisation generally.