Staffing the Hospitals : An Urgent National Need
1945 1945 1940s 20 pages 4 greater calls upon trained personnel in this field than they used to make ; and there are overseas civilian needs which have to be met, in Europe, in the Colonies and elsewhere. Many nurses and other hospital workers who came out of retirement, and others who postponed th...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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London : Published for the Minister of health, the Secrerary of State for Scotland and the Minister of labour and national service by H.M.S.O.
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4 greater calls upon trained personnel in this field than they used to make ; and there are overseas civilian needs which have to be met, in Europe, in the Colonies and elsewhere. Many nurses and other hospital workers who came out of retirement, and others who postponed their retirement, to help in the war effort are now seeking a well earned rest from their labours. Many who left other vocations to take up hospital work temporarily are now anxious to return to their peace-time occupations. 5. Above all, there is the vicious circle of the shortage itself ; short staffs mean overworked staffs and strained working conditions ; thus wrong impressions of the real nature of hospital life and work are created and people are discouraged from choosing that life. RECRUITMENT 6. Actually, there has been no diminution in the rate of recruitment; the number of hospital nurses taking up and completing training for State Registration has for many years shewn a steady annual increase. The numbers of domestic staff employed have also increased. The trouble is that the rate of recruitment in both fields needs to be much higher still if it is to come within measurable distance of meeting the need. 7. Much was done during the war, and is still being done, to stimulate recruitment for hospital work. Nursing and hospital domestic work have been given a high priority in the arrangements for making full use of the nation's resources. Now that the war is over, suitable men and women who leave the forces or other forms of national service are being encouraged to take up such work, and the Government has just introduced a scheme whereby special allowances will be given to such men and women who take nursing training. Encouragement continues to be given to the establishment of pre-nursing courses which help to bridge the gap between the ordinary school-leaving age and the normal age of entry into nursing training schools and also provide for people at work who want to begin to study in their spare time for a nursing career. To maintain and raise the standards of teaching, Government grants are to be made to selected nurses who wish to qualify as nurse tutors. THE CIVIL NURSING RESERVE 8. The Civil Nursing Reserve was formed in preparation for the war, to recruit an additional supply of trained nurses, assistant nurses and nursing auxiliaries for war-time needs. Most of those who responded to the call and joined this Reserve did so purely as a war service. The emergency is not yet over, and so far the Government have had to keep the Reserve in being, but they do not feel that it would be fair, or consistent with the spirit in which the Reserve was recruited, that they should retain for the post-war emergency those women who would, if released be free from the obligation to continue in nursing if they wish to do so. They propose shortly to announce a programme for the release by stages of those of the Reserve who wish to go. They trust and believe that there will be many who will be ready to stay on and serve in the difficult period ahead. All those who are suitable will be able to take the course of training for State Registered Nurses and will, if they have had the appropriate experience be excused six months of the training period. (Some 4,000 nursing auxiliary members have
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