E/PM8/7/1

Area Health Authority file containing correspondence with and circulars from both North Bedfordshire and South Bedfordshire Health Authorities on topics related to pupils’ health, as well as community health matters more generally, including some specific issues as follows:

1983 - 1986

From: 1983 To: 1986

- campaigns for measles immunisation including a Bedfordshire leaflet [1983-1985]; - North Bedfordshire Health Authority Action Plan [1983]; - future management arrangements for Bedfordshire Ambulance Service [1983]; - asthma at school [1983-1984]; - Meeting between Local Education Authority officers and Area Health Authority discussing future arrangements for nursing advice, home tuition, non-teaching support for children with special needs in ordinary schools and computerisation of school medical records [1984]; - pre-school child health surveillance [1984]; - consultation document on proposed transfer of rehabilitation facilities from Park Hospital, Mogerhanger to Bedford General Hospital (North Wing) [1984]; - inclusion and exclusion periods for commoner communicable diseases, specifically German Measles [1983-1984]; - letter to parents explaining School Health Service and School Dental Service [1984]; - minutes of a meeting of Mental Handicap Planning Team [1984]; - consultation document on proposed change of use of chest unit at St.Mary's Hospital, Luton [1984]; - power to ensure cleanliness, regarding an exchange child from Europe who had head lice [1985]; - criticism by Specialist in Community Medicine of Hon.Secretary of Bedfordshire branch of National Association of Headteachers’ letter to Chief Education Officer in which he complains that medical personnel staff visiting schools expected school staff to do all their administrative work for them [1985]; - Bedfordshire County Council response to Regional Health Authority documents regarding: maternity and neo-natal services; ear, nose and throat services; opthamology; and primary health care [1985]; - head lice including a letter to parents by headmaster of St.George's Lower School, Leighton Buzzard [1980-1985]; - North Bedfordshire Health Authority management structure proposals for geriatric and community care [1986]; - Bedfordshire County Council press notice supporting Charter for Democratic Health Service [1986]; - medication of children at school [1986]; - South Bedfordshire Health Authority report on the work of the Department of Community Medicine, 1982-1986; - issue of school children being allowed to wear good quality training shoes rather than poor quality ordinary shoes [1986]; - Bedfordshire County Council press notice - "County Council Launches “Eat Well to Keep Well” Campaign" with Specialist in Community Medicine’s criticism of encouragement to have thick milk shakes [1986]; - new structure of South Bedfordshire Health Authority Community, Maternity & Mental Handicap Unit [1986].

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Chief Education Officer,
Bedfordshire County Council

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