TREATMENT IN HOSPITALS

Taranaki Daily News, 11 June 1932, Page 5

TREATMENT IN HOSPITALS

ROUND-TABLE RECOMMENDATIONS.

ADOPTION BY CONFERENCE.

By Telegraph.—Press Association.

Wellington, June 10.

The hospital boards’ conference adopted recommendations arising from the round-table conference of March, 1929, as follow: —

All members of the community requiring treatment in a hospital shall be eligible #or admission to public hospitals. Patients in public hospitals who need, because of the nature of their illness, accommodation other than in larger wards, shall be provided for by an adequate number of one to four bedded wards.

Medical attendance on patients shall be in the hands of a visiting staff wita the assistance of a requisite number .of resident medical officers. Each hospital board may determine the number of the visiting staff, but it is recommended that in arriving at a decision the board shall, consistent with the conference and smooth running of the institution, appoint as many of the medical practitioners residing in the district as possible.' In making appointments to the visiting staff and in determining the suitability or otherwise of practitioners for the privilege of attendance on patients, the hospital board should be guided by the advice of a special consultative body, or, in the case of smaller hospital districts, by the advice of the Director-General of Health.

The special consultative body should comprise the consulting staff, if any, ot. the hospital, or, in other cases, should comprise the senior members of the medical profession of the district elected by the hospital board with the approval of the Director-General of Health.

All patients shall be attended by the visiting medical staff in honorary capacity.