NURSES’ WORKING HOURS
EFFECT IN PRIVATE MATERNITY HOSPITALS
(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) INVERCARGILL, July 2. The possibility of three maternity homes in Invercargill closing in September because of the new Private Hospitals (Hours of Work) Regulations, was mentioned by Invercargill doctors and nurses when inquiries were made to-day. The provision of other accommodation for maternity cases v/ould, it was stated, become an extremely difficult problem. From September 1 the weekly hours of work of nursing staffs are to be reduced to 48, inclusive of meal times. The effect of this regulation, it is stated, is that the staffs will have to be increased, but as this is declared to be impossible because of the acute shortage of nurses and probationers, the maternity homes will be forced to close down. It was emphasised by one nurse that this inability to carry on would be due, not so much to increased costs, which could be passed on, as to the impossibility of securing additional nurses. Three Invercargill homes deal with 350 patients a year among them. If these 350 cases now treated in private maternity hospitals are deprived of that accommodation a very difficult situation will be created.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22444, 4 July 1938, Page 10
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