FUTURE OF PRIVATE HOSPITALS

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27073, 23 June 1953, Page 10

FUTURE OF PRIVATE HOSPITALS

MRS BOYLE’S EVIDENCE (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, June 22. A Press Association message from Christchurch on Friday night claimed that Mrs E. Boyle, president of the New Zealand Private Hospital Association, had been misquoted. The Private Hospital Association denied that Mrs Boyle had claimed that St. George’s Hospital, Christchurch, was one of several private units that could well “have to close their doors within measurable time.” *' An official cyclostyled copy of Mrs Boyle’s written evidence, on New

Zealand Private Hospital Association paper, to the Consultative Committee on Hospital Reform includes the following:—

“We strongly recommend that the Consultative Committee familiarise itself with the report of the committee established by the Hon. J. T. Watts to investigate the position of private hospitals, and in particular with (here follow five clauses, of which the fourth is) : r “(d) The grave and immediate difficulties facing such private units as Bowen Hospital, Wellington (36 beds). an d 'St. George’s, Christchurch (128 beds), and two private units in Nelson, to mention only a few of those which could well have to close their doors within measurable time.”