Health boards suggested

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34106, 19 March 1976, Page 14

Health boards suggested

Hospital and social services must change their individual ways of thinking and become one health service, the Medical Superintendent-in-Chief of the North Canterbury Hospital Board (Dr L. McH. Berry) said last evening.

Dr Berrv said at the Christchurch School of Nursing graduation ceremony that in the long term he would like to see health boards, rather than hospital boards. These would look after the physical and mental health of the community. Health education, continuing care of patients, social welfare, and aid in the community would be part of a health board’s work. “No longer can administrators think of themselves working within four walls and social workers working outside these walls." he said! The Matron of Christchurch Hospital (Miss D. R. Newman) said hospital administrators were continuously seeking better methods of management. Changing attitudes and responsibilities had come with the new senices being provided by hospitals. But society depended on the nur-ing service, and there must always be professional concern for the quality of that senice. Miss Newman said. NURSING PRIZES Nurse Marti Winn was awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal. The medal is won by the nurse with the highest total marks in the school’s examination Nurse Winn also won the Wendy Watson memorial prize for obstetrical nursing. Other special prizes were awarded as foltows:— Prize for practical nursing. Nurse D. A. Kenny: Hugh Acland prize for surgical nursery; Fenwick memorial prize for medical nursing.

Nurse F. J. Harrowfield; Jocelyn Scott memorial prize for practical nursing class three of Princess Margaret Hospital. Nurse M. E. Burge; Jean Walker and Rosalind Webb memorial prize for practical nursing in Class three of Christchurch Hospital. Nurse Betty D. Simmonds: Mary Connolly imemorial prize for obstetrics ' and gynaecological nursing lin class two. Nurse M. A. | Queree. ' The class prizes were awarded to Nurse F. J. Harrowfield. class one; Nurse M. A. Queree. class two: Nurses C. M. McEvedy and AnnaJane Shackleton, class three; I Nurse Betty D. Simmonds, 'class four; Nurse K. S. Kearns, class five.