Hospital funds effect
Health reporter The amount of money to run North Canterbury Hospital Board hospitals this year will not be affected by Government calls for a reduction in the number of longstay beds in the board’s area. -
the Health Department has (instructed the board to prepare plans to reduce the number of long-stay beds so that they will match guidelines on bed numbers established by the department in 1977.
Senior officers of the board said yesterday that the guidelines issue, as mentioned in an article in “The Press” of April 18, had given the impression that the board would be short of money to run.its hospitals if it did not produce a bed reduction plan. It was only in relation to money to run new services and provide for extra beds that the board must attempt to plan for bed reductions. If the board does not produce this plan, the department says it may not get money for new and extra services.
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