NEW ZEALAND HOSPITALS
REPORT OF DR. McEACHERN. (Per Press Association.) Wellington April 19. Dr. McEachern’s report on New Zealand hospitals has been issued. It highly commends a number of features of the present system and generally speaking finds the buildings good and fauly comfortable. The four metropolitan hospitals can rank with any elsewhere. The education of the nurses impressed him favourably. He advocates the stimulation of community interest, the reduction in the’ number of district (provisionfor the intermediate class of patients with freedom to choose their own doctor, a uniform policy of staffing, the abolition of all or part time medical officers and the substitution of as many practising doctors as possible in each community, the appointment of a director of hospitals, a maternity ward in each hospital with a doctor always ready to attend, well organised dietary departments, and more careful planning of hospitals.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LIV, Issue 9161, 19 April 1926, Page 3
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