[Report 1958] / Medical Officer of Health, Radnorshire County Council.
- Radnorshire (Wales). County Council.
- Date:
- 1958
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1958] / Medical Officer of Health, Radnorshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Poliomyelitis vaccintition lias ])een carried ont mainly by tlu' ;.;ormral m(3(lical practitioners of the county, but in one area of tbo comity where the family doctor coiicerned does not wish to undertake this work, I liavo been compelled to do the immunisations myself. A.MBUT.A biCP SPUVTCK : This is a service which has occupied a good deal of the time and spent a good deal of the money of the I^ocal Plealth Authority during the last ten years. The cost of the service is high because of the low density of popul- ation and because in most cases where a patient r '.quires a consultant’s opinion or treatment, be has to be carried to a hospital outside the county. On the wl\ole, the Ambulance Service is as efficient as might be expected in a rural area such as this, except as regards the pro- vision of ambulance attendants. It has been extremely difficult to hud volunteers able and willing to undertake this work. I made a recommendation in .1956 to the County Health Committee that an approach should be made to the Hospital Management Committee for the appointment of an a liitio lal nurs ^ at the Llandrindod Wells Itospital, a proportion of whose salary should bo paid by the ].jOcal Authority, so that she or some other nurse would always be available to act as an ambulance attendant when required. The Committee did not see their way clear to accept this recommendation. Allegations of abuse of the Ambulance Service, part- icularly the Sitting-case car service, have been made from time to time. It has been alleged that when patients have b,^.eu taken to hospital by sitting-case car, r datives have accompanied them in order to have a shopping expedition, and that the vehicle has been delay- ed in retuiming to its garage on th^s account. zAlthough these allegations have often been juade, it has been impossible to substantiate them, and I believe that such abuse is very uncommon. It was also alleged tbatdui)li- cation of journeys occurred vei'y frequently, and in an olTort to (.diminite this, a “duplicate voucher’’ scheme- was intr-aluced in 1957. This iiu’olved much additional](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28875126_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
