HOSPITAL BOARDS BROUGHT TO STATUS OF SCHOOL COMMITTEES

Wanganui Chronicle, 16 December 1949, Page 6

HOSPITAL BOARDS BROUGHT TO STATUS OF SCHOOL COMMITTEES

TIMARU, Last Night (P.A.)— “The general effect to my mind is to consign the hospital service in New Zealand to mediocrity because of a sense of frustration caused amongst existing staffs. There is nothing attractive about the present set up to induce the more highly skilled men to take up hospital w’ork.” This comment was made today by Mr. H. G. Naylor, president of the New Zealand Hospital Officers’ Association, and secretary of the South Canterbury Hospital Board, when he expressed a hope that the Government would early revise the Hospital Employment which recently became law.

Medical officers, said Mr. Naylor, were far fron satisfied with their treatment and whole time clerical officers had no cause for contentment with their lot. The latest regulations were an indication of the complete lack of understanding and want of vision on the part of those administering and directing the hospital system, for they failed to recognise the responsibilities of hospital administrators and the requirements for an efficient service.

Mr. Naylor also claimed that legislation was gradually reducing hospital boards to status of school committees.