BRITAIN’S HOSPITALS

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 January 1941, Page 7

BRITAIN’S HOSPITALS

FINANCIAL STRAIN FELT. [BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.] RUGBY, January 15. The voluntary hospital system, which is practically confined to Britain and the Dominions, is brought a stagemearer a necessary adaptation to modern conditions by a report issued by the Nuffield Provincial Hospital Trust, which states that the purpose and methods that the Trust is pursuing have the agreement and support of the Ministry of Health. The Trust records progress made in the bringing together in Regional Councils of the Trust of representatives of various interests concerned, the object being the coI ordination within each regional area of ithe existing medical services, includI ing the Ministry of Health, public I health authorities, and voluntary hos■pitals. i “The Times” says: “Voluntary hospitals have always formed, and still continue to form, the backbone of medical service in this country.. They .are a fountain from which will come : knowledge and skill whereby other services have been sustained. They have borne the strain of recent years in such a manner as to prove beyond all doubt that they possess the confidence and affection of the nation, and that their services are indispensable in the existing forms. But the fight they are carrying on has become too hard. They cannot possibly maintain it in the future. The preservation and adaption of the voluntary effort with the framework of a new edifice may well prove to be not the least of many benefactions Lord Nuffield has. conferred upon his countrymen.”