two months because of new Minis' try of Health staff/patient ratios
Hospitals like Harperbury hav* used to working towards a target of 26 staff for each 10f patients. Now the standard ha: been raised to 34 staff per 1OC patients. been
1 Male staff scarce in subnormality
hospitals
After a visit to
Harperbury
Hos-
St. Albans early this year, Mr. Richard Crossman, Secretary for Social Services, said that shonage of nursing staff?particularly of men?was the most difficult problem in hospitals for the subnormal. He cited one male ward in the hospital where a charge nurse had only one assistant to look after 55 patients. The Minister, who has visited three other hospitals for the subnormal in the North and Midlands as part of a general tour of hospitals, said that the staff shortage at Harperbury was particularly noticeable.
pital
near
Placards in in the Placards the form death notices notices form of of death 'Narcotics took 'Narcotics took her her life'. life'. 20 20
It had been suggested to him that the shortage of male nurses was partly because of the low starting salary. The women's and children's wards were kept going largely by married women working part-time. Their intake of trainees was also
larger. Overcrowding
was again at its worst in the men's wards. But the children's ward was up to the
highest standards
as a
building and
space than either the female wards. He had been impressed and moved by the work of the nurses. Harperbury should have 538 nursing staff; in September it had
Centre for advice on
abortions
Advisory Service mentioned in these pages soirtf months ago, is now in being. It i5 situated near Oxford Circus in Maf garet Street, W.l. It is intended a* a service for married and unmarried The pregnancy
women.
The founders of the Service sa) that far too many women still facc
had male
more
unwanted
or
305,
137
the 1967 Abortion Act changed the law, the Act did not alter the atti* tudes of some doctors who have always been unwilling to carry ou1 or recommend abortions. Nor die it increase National Health Service facilities for abortions, said Mr Alan J. Golding, chairman of the Service, at the opening. Mr. Golding, a chartered accouf
men
and
168
women.
There are 1,631 beds, although not all are occupied at the moment. The staff shortage has been made to appear more acute in the past
on on
display display
in Stockholm in Stockholm
during during
an an
pregnancies.
anti-drugs campaign. campaign. anti-drugs
Although
The The words me
Hospitals like Harperbury hav* used to working towards a target of 26 staff for each 10f patients. Now the standard ha: been raised to 34 staff per 1OC patients. been
1 Male staff scarce in subnormality
hospitals
After a visit to
Harperbury
Hos-
St. Albans early this year, Mr. Richard Crossman, Secretary for Social Services, said that shonage of nursing staff?particularly of men?was the most difficult problem in hospitals for the subnormal. He cited one male ward in the hospital where a charge nurse had only one assistant to look after 55 patients. The Minister, who has visited three other hospitals for the subnormal in the North and Midlands as part of a general tour of hospitals, said that the staff shortage at Harperbury was particularly noticeable.
pital
near
Placards in in the Placards the form death notices notices form of of death 'Narcotics took 'Narcotics took her her life'. life'. 20 20
It had been suggested to him that the shortage of male nurses was partly because of the low starting salary. The women's and children's wards were kept going largely by married women working part-time. Their intake of trainees was also
larger. Overcrowding
was again at its worst in the men's wards. But the children's ward was up to the
highest standards
as a
building and
space than either the female wards. He had been impressed and moved by the work of the nurses. Harperbury should have 538 nursing staff; in September it had
Centre for advice on
abortions
Advisory Service mentioned in these pages soirtf months ago, is now in being. It i5 situated near Oxford Circus in Maf garet Street, W.l. It is intended a* a service for married and unmarried The pregnancy
women.
The founders of the Service sa) that far too many women still facc
had male
more
unwanted
or
305,
137
the 1967 Abortion Act changed the law, the Act did not alter the atti* tudes of some doctors who have always been unwilling to carry ou1 or recommend abortions. Nor die it increase National Health Service facilities for abortions, said Mr Alan J. Golding, chairman of the Service, at the opening. Mr. Golding, a chartered accouf
men
and
168
women.
There are 1,631 beds, although not all are occupied at the moment. The staff shortage has been made to appear more acute in the past
on on
display display
in Stockholm in Stockholm
during during
an an
pregnancies.
anti-drugs campaign. campaign. anti-drugs
Although
The The words me
