Report from the Select Committee on Nursing Homes (Registration).
- Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Nursing Homes (Registration)
- Date:
- 1926
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Credit: Report from the Select Committee on Nursing Homes (Registration). Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![8 June, 1926. ] 2909. Therefore it is an argument in favour of having every doctor’s Home inspected. Would you go so far as that? —No, I do not think so. Sir Richard Luce. 2910. What is the actual regulation with regard to the case of which you were just now speaking? That lady that vou spoke of is registered, is she ?—She makes an application to be put on the Register. 2911. Have you not the right of in- specting her Home, if you wanted to?— No. 2912. By the exempted P—Yes. 2913. Has she to get references from two other doctors ?—Yes. 2914. That is the same as in London? —Yes. Regulations she is Chairman. 2915. Any doctor applying for regis- tration would be automatically regis- tered under those particular conditions? —Yes. 2916. What you would do would be to make another condition, namely, that they should have a resident qualified nurse on the premises ?P—Yes. 2917. That is as far as you would go? —And that they should notify any change in their staff. Dr. Vernon Davies. 2918. No nurse, no registration P—Yes. Sir Richard Luce. 2919. It is of inaternity cases that you are speaking at the moment ?—-Yes. Major Price. 2920. Supposing the doctor took a patient in and he had no qualified staff at all, would he escape?—He would not be registered. Chairman. 2921. You would make that extra con- dition P—Yes, quite. 9992. As it stands now, there is only one condition, namely, that he should vet two of his brothers in the profession to say that he is a proper person to run 2 Home, and then automatically he is registered. You would make a further [ Continued. condition to that, and say although he may get his two brethren, unless he has got a registered nurse on the premises to look after the cases, he would not be registered P—That is right. Dr. Vernon Davies. 2928. Or need not apply to be regis- tered?—Or need not apply to be regis- tered, because he would not be accepted. General Sir Richard Luce.| I do not quite follow that. There are many cases which might be proper for a Home which do not require a nurse, border-line cases and mental cases, for instance, going to a doctor’s private house, many of which do not require a trained nurse at all. There are a considerable number of cases in which the doctor takes a case in for gain with a view to looking after them, but they do not require any actual nursing. This regulation that you suggest should be brought in, of their having compulsorily a trained nurse in the place, is not quite the same as it is 1n maternity cases. Chairman. 2924. I do not think we can press Dr. Douglas-Drummond any further about It is clear to me that she is not seised of the kind of case that we are seised of in this Committee, where we have had some very distressing cases. where it looks to us as if we ought to register doctors’ houses just as much as other persons’ houses. You have not got that experience and you are only speak- ing of your general view on this question ? —Yes; I have not the slightest doubt that I would agree with you if I had that information, but I have not got it. Dr. Shiels. 2925. In regard to inspecting, do you think, for instance in the case of your Public Health Authority, and even in the case of smaller Boroughs, they would feel it a sort of slight if they were not able to look after their own Nursing Homes and if the County Authority had to come in and inspect Nursing Homes in their particular Borough areas? Do you think that is a consideration at all? —No, I would not consider that. I have no doubt they would raise that point, but I should not consider it. 2926. What is your main reason for preferring the Local Authority. Is it](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32170051_0204.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
