HOSPITAL CONTROL.
PROPOSAL TO ABOLISH BOARDS.
NAPIER, September 1
Dr. A. C. B. Biggs, medical superintendent of the Napier Hospital, has produced a scheme of hospital control. He proposes to increase the activities in the district nursing'scheme estimating to save thereby £6OOO in the Napier district. Under the scheme patients with small or no claim, on hospital attention would be treated at home by a nurse at 2s 6d per visit, each nurse being responsible for ten patients. This would also mean increased employment for nurses. Dr. Biggs also suggests that a board of experts should control the hospital system instead of local committees the members of which, he said, know little about hospital problems. To avoid overlapping Dr. Biggs would do away with the promnt districts, replacing them by fifteen larger areas, and thus cutting out expenses. He objects to political control of hospitals, both local and general.—(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Age, 2 September 1931, Page 7
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