HOSPITAL ECONOMIES
Reducing Patients’ Stay ACTION IN AUCKLAND Dominion Special Service. Auckland, August 18. The desirability of reducing the stay of patients in hospital and the elimination of 100 beds are among the suggested' measures of economy which are under consideration by the Auckland Hospital Board. Various reports have been considered since the board’s original estimates for the year 1932-33 were returned by the Health Department for reconsideration. The Finance Committee submitted economy recommendations to yesterday’s meeting of the board, and the new medical superintendent, Dr. J. W. Craven, furnished reports on these economies. It was decided to authorise the medical superintendent, in consultation with the honorary physician or surgeon, to decide when a patient was to be discharged. An amendment, moved, by .Mr. M. J. Savage, providing that no patient requiring continuous medical or surgical attention should be discharged without authority of the board, was lost.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 278, 19 August 1932, Page 12
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