VISITING STAFF.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 62, 15 March 1938, Page 8

VISITING STAFF.

NEW HOSPITAL BY-LAW.

REVISED METHOD FAVOURED.

The Auckland Hospital Board may give the lead to other hospital boards throughout New Zealand in its proposed new method of making appointments to the honorary visiting staff. The chairman of the board, the Rev. W. C. Wood, who returned yesterday afternoon to the city after attending in Wellington last week the annual meeting of the executive of the Hospital Boards' Association, recalled that the board had drawn up a new by-law-relating to the election of the honorarv visiting staff. This was submitted to the Minister for his approval, but he withheld this pending a conference between representatives of the British Medical Association and the Hospital Boards' Association.

That conference had now been held, and the by-law- had been explained by Mr. Wood and by Dr. Frank Macky, representing the Auckland visiting staff. The conference had expressed its cordial approval of the method provided for, and recommended that it should be brought wider the notice of other hospital boards in New Zealand, with the hope that they might follow the same lines.

Mr. Wood said the executive meeting had lasted for the unusually long period of four days. It had been delayed in expectation that the Government would have brought down its health insurance proposals, and when it was announced that thif step had been postponed the meeting was adjourned until such time as the proposed legislation would be available for consideration.

The executive held conferences, with the Director-General of Health and the Director of Nursing, as well as that with the British Medical Association, which was holding its annual meeting at the same time.