HOSPITAL TREATMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 136, 10 June 1932, Page 5

HOSPITAL TREATMENT.

ALL CITIZENS ELIGIBLE. CONFERENCE ADOPTS PROPOSALS. WARDS OF VARIOUS SIZES. (By Telegraph.— -I'rcss Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The Hospital Boards' Conference today adopted recommendations arising from the round-table conference of March, 1020, as follows: "That all members of the community requiring treatment 111 hospital should be eligible for admission to public hospitals; that patients in public hospitals who need, because of the nature of their illness, accommodation other than in larger wards, shall be provided for by an adequate number of one to four-bedded wards.

"That medical attendance on patients be in the hands of the visiting stall, with the assistance of the requisite number of resident medical officers.

"That each hospital board may determine the number of visiting start, but it be recommended that in arriving at its decision the board shall, consistent with the convenience and smootli running of the institution, appoint as many of the medical practitioners residing in the district as possible.

'•That, in making appointments to the visiting staff and in determining the suitability or otherwise of practitioners for the privilege of attendance on patients, the hospital board should be guided by the advice of a special consultative body, or, in case of smaller hospital districts, by the advice of the Director-General of Health.

"That a special consultative body comprise the consulting staff, if any, of the hospital, or, in other cases, should comprise senior members of the medical profession of the district selected by the hospital board, with the approval of the Director-General of Health.

"All patients shall be attended by the visiting medical staff in, an honorary capacity."