Volume 1
Fit for the future : report of the Committee on Child Health Services / chairman, S.D.M. Court.
- Great Britain. Committee on Child Health Services
- Date:
- 1976
Licence: Open Government Licence
Credit: Fit for the future : report of the Committee on Child Health Services / chairman, S.D.M. Court. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![THE TRANSITION TO THE NEW SERVICE 1. GPs should be eligible for accreditation as GPPs without delay if: (i) they have had at least 3 years’ experience as a principal in general practice; | (ii) they have had at least 6 months’ post registration experience in paediatrics; (iii) they agree to undergo training in developmental and educational medicine and the care of handicapped children. 2. Clinical medical officers wishing to enter general practice as GPPs should be eligible for immediate acceditation if: (i) they have had a total of 3 years’ whole-time equivalent experience in the child and school health services; Gi) they have had at least 6 months’ post registration experience in paediatrics; (iii) they agree to undergo the whole-time equivalent of 1 year as a trainee in general practice; unless they can show that they have had such experience already. They should also attend short courses of training in clinical paediatrics and preventive child health if they have not had such training in the recent past. 3. The profession and the DHSS should seek to negotiate suitable financial arrangements for the situation where clinical medical officers practising as GPPs can only make a part-time contribution to the work of the practice. 4. Clinical doctors not wishing or eligible to be GPPs should work exclusively in the developmental and preventive aspects of child health, including the care of the handicapped, and their new rdle should be recognised by the title child health practitioner. 5. In their clinical preventive work including immediate treatment where necessary, child health practitioners should be responsible for the children they see. 6. Each child health practitioner should be associated with one or two group practices, and have an independent personal professional status within the primary care field. 7. Some senior clinical medical officers should be regarded as eligible to become consultant community paediatricians on the basis of their training and experience in paediatrics, in the care of handicapped children and educational medicine. 8. Senior clinical medical officers who lack sufficient general paediatric training, should be given the opportunity to become eligible for appointment to consultant posts in community paediatrics after successful completion of short intensive training in paediatrics. 9. To take account of the position of senior clinical medical officers who 39]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32220261_0001_0411.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
