Nuffield Foundation Award In Chch

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32114, 9 October 1969, Page 1

Nuffield Foundation Award In Chch

The Matron of Princess Margaret Hospital (Miss M. M. Darby) is one of five New Zealanders who have been granted a Nuffield Foundation study award for workers in health, education or welfare to study in the United Kingdom.

The five winners, selected from more than 116 applicants, have been awarded travel bursaries providing air fare to Britain and maintenance allowances for a three; month study visit to be arranged by the British Council.

Miss Darby has been matron at Princess Margaret Hospital for nearly five years. She was previously a tutor sister at the Christchurch School of Nursing. Miss Darby said last evening that she hoped to he able

to attend a course in senior hospital management and to study staffing structures in English hospitals. She would also like an opportunity to study training programmes and nursing staffing in coronary care units. At this stage she does not know when she will be leaving for Britain. The other persons to receive the awards, the first to be granted, are Mr J. A. Bateman, principal of the Central Institute of Technology, Miss L. M. Kennedy, of the Vocational Guidance Service, Mr T. M. Comer, District Child Welfare Officer at Invercargill, and Mr J. Hogan, Senior Inspector of Schools in Napier. The awards were announced last night by the Nuffield Foundation.