EXCEPTION TAKEN TO STATEMENT

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22004, 30 January 1937, Page 14

EXCEPTION TAKEN TO STATEMENT

HOSPITAL STAFFING IN DOMINION

DUNEDIN METHOD OUTLINED

fpRKSS ASSOCIATION TELKfIRAiI.)

DUNEDIN, January 29.

Strong exception was taken last evening by the chairman of the Otago Hospital Board (Mr J. W Dove) to a statement made by Sir Alan Newton, of Melbourne, who. when delivering a to the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in Auckland last week said that appointments to the professional staffs of the hospitals m New Zealand were made solely by lay boards which were unable to judge the qualifications of thej applicants “With appointments to the pi oie -dnnol staff of the Dunedin Hospital. Mr Dove sakl, “nothing is done uAtil the applications have been placed before the honorary medical staff. They Bell, professor of surgery in the Otago Medical School, the professor of medicine (Dr. Carmalt Jones). Dr. J. B. Dawson, professor « obstetrics. and the head or xne ophthalmic department (Di. W. E. C^Thus I> it will be seen that all appointments are made under the advice of those competent to judge, and the board will always continue to make them in this manner. If th position elsewhere is as represented by Sir Alan Newton, then this board dissociates itself entirely from it.