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Bureau of Peripheral Medicine

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The Bureau of Peripheral Medicine is part of the Parliament of Health.

❊ EFF 01 Jan 01
Registry CPH-02 Reg 02 of 09 ΰΌΆ Est 1966
Headquarters Nassau Peripheral Medicine House
Scale 27 offices
17,340 staff
Bureau of Peripheral Medicine
Bureau of the Parliament of Health
Employees 17,340
Established 1966
Headquarters Peripheral Medicine House, Nassau
Service Commonwealth Medical Service

The Bureau of Peripheral Medicine is a bureau of the Parliament of Health that provides nursing, medical transport and visiting doctors on the peripheral islands of the Commonwealth. It is a heavily decentralised organisation in the tradition of the district nursing services. Some of its stations, especially in the Antarctic Region, are kept for only part of the year. In general, most islands of a few hundred people have a nursing station of some kind.

The bureau is headquartered in Nassau, and has three general mandates established by the parliament:

  • Nursing Stations: Nursing stations and district nurses on islands without a doctor.
  • Medical Transport: Seaplane and hydrofoil ambulances, and the hospital ships.
  • Visiting Medicine: Relief doctors, visiting specialists and medical advice by radio.

The bureau is organised in the same fashion as the Bureau of Public Health, with its nursing stations reporting to the regional health administrations. Despite the isolation of its stations, the bureau has a centralised dispatch and serious cases invite a national response. Transfers from Santes to Oslola, for example, often go by way of a hospital ship and two seaplanes.

Island ambulances are provided by the bureau with the Civil Defence Service. They are structured differently from the ambulances of the larger islands, and are typically seaplanes. There are about 300 nursing stations in the country, staffed mostly by a single district nurse. Patients in bad weather are carried by the two Mary-class hospital ships of the Common Navy.

Departments 7 departments, 27 offices, 17,340 staff

General Headquarters

2,490

Direction of the bureau; parliamentary business, legal advice, press and staff.

  • Office of the Director

  • Office of the Chief Medical Officer for the Islands

  • Parliamentary Branch

  • Press Office

  • Establishments Office

  • Recruitment Office

Department of Nursing Stations

5,870

Nursing stations, district nurses and midwives on the peripheral islands.

  • Nursing Stations Office

    35 stations

  • District Nurses Office

    20 stations

  • Midwifery Office

    14 stations

  • Station Stores Office

Department of Island Doctors

1,840

Doctors for rural clinics; immediate titles; relief and visiting doctors.

  • Island Doctors Office

  • Relief Doctors Office

    10 stations

  • Visiting Specialists Office

  • Dental Circuit Office

    12 stations

Department of Medical Transport

4,530

Seaplane and hydrofoil ambulances; the hospital ships; transfer of patients.

  • Island Ambulance Service

    9 stations

  • Hospital Ships Office

  • Patient Transfers Office

  • Patient Escorts Office

Department of Radio Medicine

520

Medical advice by radio to islands and ships; medicine chests.

  • Radio Medical Advice Office

  • Medicine Chests Office

  • Ships Medical Office

Department of Polar Medicine

1,110

Medicine in the Antarctic and Arctic republics; cold injuries.

  • Antarctic Medical Office

    4 stations

  • Arctic Medical Office

    2 stations

  • Cold Injuries Unit

Department of Peripheral Public Health

980

Water, sanitation and vaccination on the peripheral islands.

  • Island Sanitation Office

    15 stations

  • Island Vaccination Office

Interwork Detachments What is a detachment?
Maritime Casualty Detachment
with Common Navy, Civil Defence Service
Evacuation of casualties from ships and islands by hospital ship and seaplane
Antarctic Medical Supply Detachment
with Bureau of the Merchant Marine, Bureau of Pharmaceuticals
Winter supply of the Antarctic nursing stations and field stations
Constituents 5 bodies
Nursing Stations Office
Nursing stations and district nurses.
Island Ambulance Service
Seaplane and hydrofoil ambulances.
Hospital Ships Office
Patients and medical staff of the hospital ships, with the Common Navy.
Radio Medical Advice Office
Medical advice by radio to islands and ships, at Oslola.
Antarctic Medical Office
Medicine in the Antarctic republics, at Stanley.