Hospital staffing criticised
PA Wellington The Government must set hospital board budgets so that the boards can solve the present staffing problems in psychiatric hospitals, said the Shadow Minister of Health (Dr M. E. R. Bassett) yesterday. “The principal reason for the present stalemate seems to be a feeling by hospital boards that they lack the authority as well as the finance to do what they know
to be necessary in relation to staffing hospitals in their districts,” said Dr Bassett. Psychiatric nurses have been’ involved in industrial action over the issue of staffing levels since last week. Dr Bassett said it had been 3% months since staff and board representatives had released their report on staffing conditions in hospitals, but the Government had done nothing to resolve the impasse.
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