HOSPITAL STAFFING.
Closed System Condemned by Doctors. Hospital staffing on the closed system, whereby one medical practitioner was given charge of the whole surgical work in a large hospital was condemned at the recent conference in Sydney of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Sir Louis Barnett, one of the New Zealand delegates to the conference, passed through Christchurch this morning on his return to Dunedin. “ The one-man system of surgical staffing has been tried and found wanting in Australia,” said Sir Louis in an interview, “ and all but a very few of their larger hospitals are now run, and sucessfully run, on the visiting staff plan. It is so, also, in New Zealand, but at least four of our more important hospitals—Hamilton, Gisborne, Invercargill and Ashburton—still cling to the closed system of staffing in spite of the insistent appeals of the college to institute the desired reform. “In the probable event of a regrouping of hospital districts and a grading of hospitals for the purpose of providing a more economic and more efficient surgical service, it would be obviously impossible to classify these particular hospitals as of a high grade of efficiency.”
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 741, 20 April 1933, Page 9
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193HOSPITAL STAFFING. Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 741, 20 April 1933, Page 9
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