U.K. Woman To Study N.Z. Health Services

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31120, 25 July 1966, Page 2

U.K. Woman To Study N.Z. Health Services

(From TUI THOMAS, Womens Editor of "The Press.”) Although most of the British Churchill fellows of 1966 will study in the United States, seven men and women are getting ready to go to New Zealand.

Miss Hazel Taylor, a'deputy-area nursing officer of Worcestershire, will study health and welfare services. Miss J. Hastings, an organising secretary of the Scottish Association of Youth Clubs, Edinburgh, will exchange ideas on youth work and explore new trends in Australia as well as New Zealand.

Another fellow, Mr A. Anthony, of Bedford, is a district nurse. He will study New Zealand’s public health services and their relationship to patients. The other men will study various aspects of fanning and indigenout art and craftsmanship. VAST PROGRAMME Miss Taylor has set herself a vast programme for the 11 weeks she will be in Auckland. Wellington and Christchurch. She wants to see hospital training for nurses and midwives, how the community nurse scheme works, the Plunket Society’s services, what is being done for the intellectually handicapped, health and welfare programmes for Maoris. After qualifying as a general nurse and midwife. Miss Taylor went into the Army, serving in England, Germany and Malta. She has been an occupational health sister in an armaments factory and a midwifery Sister in a large British hospital.

Next to take her attention was preventive nursing. She was posted to Coventry after doing a special course in this field.

“As a health visitor you do no actual nursing, but an awful lot of therapeutic listening," she said. “We also staff welfare clinics and family planning clinics.” For a time Miss Taylor was a combined district nurse, midwife and health visitor for the Warwickshire County Council, covering an area of 13 hamlets. She is now stationed at Nuneaton, Worcestershire, as a deputy-area nursing officer and will take up a new post as an area officer in the central part of Warwickshire, when she returns from New Zealand. Health and welfare voluntary associations absorb most of her spare time. She is on the Nuneaton Cancer Research Committee and the local committee for the Fellowship of the Physically Handicapped, a club for the housebound. ,She serves on the committees of both the Royal College of Midwives and of the National Health Visitors’ Association HOLDS TESTS A former captain in the Girl Guides’ Association, she now tests girls for their badges and lectures and examines St. John Ambulance Brigade cadets. Any time left over for leisure goes into i tennis and swimming. i None of the women chosen • by the Australian Winston > Chlurchill Memorial Trust will study in New Zealand.