NURSES’ HOLIDAYS
DEPLETED HOSPITAL STAFFS ADMISSION RESTRICTED TO URGENT CASES (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Jan. 3. Non-urgent or waiting list cases have not been admitted to the Welington or Hutt Hospitals during the holiday period, nor will they for several weeks at least. This step has been taken because of the shortage of nurses and the necessity to allot a number of them annual leave at this time of the year. The medical superintendent, Dr J. Cairney, said that it was imperative that the nurses, in the interests of health and efficiency, should be given their annual leave. This was one of the slacker times of the year usually, and he had asked the medical staff and private practitioners to co-operate in the policy of non-admission for several weeks for non-urgent or waiting list cases. He estimated the shortage of nurses at about 200. A similar ban on non-urgent or waiting list cases had been imposed at times during the war, Dr Cairney said, but this was the first time it had been necessary because of the shortage of nurses.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26042, 4 January 1946, Page 4
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