Report of the Hospital Sub-committee
1943-09-11 1943 1940s 15 pages THE AIMS OF THE COMMITTEE. (i.) To discover the most suitable form of organisation for the domestic department of a hospital. (ii.) To determine the qualities and outline the qualifications which candidates for posts of domestic administration in hospitals should posse...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
| Language: | English English |
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London : Institutional Management Association
11 September 1943
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| Summary: | 1943-09-11
1943
1940s
15 pages
THE AIMS OF THE COMMITTEE. (i.) To discover the most suitable form of organisation for the domestic department of a hospital. (ii.) To determine the qualities and outline the qualifications which candidates for posts of domestic administration in hospitals should possess. (iii.) To recommend suitable working and living conditions for women employed in the domestic departments of hospitals. The realisation of the vital importance of right feeding is becoming increasingly recognised and the work of catering for the staff who are in health as well as for the patients in hospitals, must be undertaken by people who are experts in this work. In order to be fitted for the responsibility not only for catering but for administering the domestic work in hospitals, considerable specialised training as well as years of experience are necessary. It is evident that in the past conditions and prospects in hospitals (for women with domestic subjects' training) were not such as to attract a sufficient number of the right type of women to this work. If an adequate supply of able women are to take up hospital domestic management it is necessary first, that there should be suitable trainings of recognised standards for this work, and second that good conditions should be provided both for working and living. In writing this report the Committee had in mind a large hospital of not less than 500 beds, and although in the main the recommendations are of a nature applicable to all hospitals, it is realised that some of the amenities recommended might not be available in small hospitals. It is with the aim of offering a contribution to the great work of British Hospitals that the Institutional Management Association through its Hospital Sub-Committee has prepared this report. 2
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