Report from the Select Committee on Nursing Homes (Registration).
- Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Nursing Homes (Registration)
- Date:
- 1926
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report from the Select Committee on Nursing Homes (Registration). Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![29 April, 1926.] 2058. May you not have a maternity case and also maternity caseP—Yes. septic an aseptic 2059. Does not the thing exactly corre- spond; is there any real argument on that?—-You are not so apt to have a septic case in a maternity home. 2060. There is a possibility of itP—Yes. 2061. After all, it is sometimes the more septic ones that are sent into homes ?—Yes. point that you are speaking of P—No. 2063. There is not really much in the question of sepsis, because it applies equally to eitherP—Yes, to a certain extent. 2064. With regard to the question of inspection, it is a fact, is it not, that there are a great many homes which are both maternity homes and nursing homes. Granted that, is it not very important that you should not have two different sets of people inspecting those two kinds of homes from different points of view ? —Well, I do not know that it signifies so much. 2065. Is it not important that you should not have two sets of inspectors looking at one place? Would you not consider that that was redundant, or at any rate -troublesome?—To a certain extent, yes. 2066. Would you think it so important that you would think it necessary to have for the ordinary nursing home a different set of inspectors from the maternity home? The point I] am getting at is this: it is extremely likely that the authority for inspecting the inaternity homes will be. County ‘ Councils P—Yes. 2067. The County Borough Councils? —Yes. 2068. That being so, would you not then waive your objections from your Society io having a different set of inspectors for the ordinary nursing homes and the maternity homes if it is already established by law that the maternity homes are to be inspected?—No, I do not think it would. 2069. You still, maintain that it would be better to have two complete sets of inspectors in practically the same sort of institution and perhaps even in the same institution having two sets of inspectors, two entire machineries for inspecting nursing homes. You would still maintain from your Society’s point of view that that is necessary P—We still [ Continued. maintain that we would wish that the Ministry of Health should do _ this inspection. 2070. But you would not be prepared to wreck a Bill upon those grounds ?— Well, I cannot say that. 2071. Or try to wreck a BillP—I have not consulted my Council upon that, but I know that they feel strongly upon it. 2072. It is one of those points which is extremely likely to come _ into practical politics and it is very important for us to realise what the point of view of your Society and other nursing societies 1S upon it on those grounds. You spoke, it seemed to me, rather from the point of view that it was only necessary (you said it in rather an uncer- tain kind of way and I want to get your exact views on the matter) to register such homes as would employ State registered nurses?—No; I did not intend to give that impression at all. 2073. You gave it rather as if that was your point of view; that that was the kind of thing that you were interested in?—Oh no; by no means. 2074. And that you were more interested in the question of the registra- tion of these homes from the point of view of eliminating untrained people from the nursing homes, whether they were use- rather than protecting the patients ?— Oh. no; I did not mean to give that impression at all. 2075. You did not mean to imply that, but it struck me rather in that way ?— Oh no. 2076. There is a question about who is the right person to inspect. Would you consider that an ordinary nursing inspector with, say the ordinary train- ing that a nurse gets for the purpose of inspecting cottage homes and so on, or helping in that way, would be a suit- able person to decide whether a home was to be registered or not?—Well, she would draw up her evidence. I do not suppose the decision would lie with the nurse, would it? 2077. Do you think that she would be qualified to take in all the considerations that were necessary on the question of granting a licence?—Yes, I do. She would draw up the schedules and so on required for the registration authority. 2078. The licence would have to be granted on the evidence, not by the nurse herself, but by somebody who was. judging simply on the evidence and not](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32170051_0152.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
