N.Z. HOSPITAL COMMISSION PLAN

Grey River Argus, 12 October 1949, Page 4

N.Z. HOSPITAL COMMISSION PLAN

P.A. WELLINGTON, October 11. The New Zealand Hospital Boards’ Association’s plan for setting up a Commission to < ontrol the national aspects of hospital administration will not be formulated until certain recommendations of a special committee have been referred back to the individual Boards. This was decided at the conference of the Association to-day. The conference was attended by representatives of each of the Dominion’s 43 Hospital Boards. The proceedings were in committee.

At the Association’s conference in May, it was decided that the jurisdiction of the proposed Commission should cover all matters of national import, but that Hospital Boards should retain their present powers in all matters of local or domestic management that did not encroach on the Commission’s province. It is understood that the discussion to-day centred in the constitution of the proposed Commission. The previous proposals envisaged a Commission of five members, two to be nominated by the Health Department, and two by the Association, under the chairmanship of one who had the qualifications of a Supreme Court Judge.