Staffing the Hospitals : An Urgent National Need
1945 1945 1940s 20 pages 16 7. Food. — Resident domestic staff should have three good meals a day besides a mid-morning snack and tea. Food should be served in dining rooms well away from the wards. It should be well cooked, served hot and attractively presented with sufficient variety an...
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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.
1945
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16 7. Food. — Resident domestic staff should have three good meals a day besides a mid-morning snack and tea. Food should be served in dining rooms well away from the wards. It should be well cooked, served hot and attractively presented with sufficient variety and including a proper proportion of meat, fish, green vegetables, salads, fruit and milk. Hot drinks, and suppers or light snacks, should be available for workers returning from off-duty periods late at night. Consideration should be given to the adoption for some meals of the buffet or cafeteria system which has been found to work well in some hospitals. Daily domestic workers should, as soon as arrangements can be made, participate in such meals as are served during their hours of duty, if they so desire. The Health Departments have on their staff advisers on catering and dietitians whom they are glad to send to hospital authorities at their request to advise on any matters connected with catering. 8. Accommodation. — The standards of accommodation to be aimed at for resident staff in all hospitals should be as follows :— (1) Single bedrooms, properly decorated and furnished according to modern standards with adequate ventilation, heating and lighting, a comfortable armchair and if possible a fitted basin and with hot and cold water laid on. Where fitted basins cannot be provided in the bedrooms there should be a readily accessible and adequately equipped toilet room curtained off into cubicles. (2) Adequate bathing and lavatory arrangements. (3) Shampoo rooms, and facilities for the washing and ironing of small articles. (4) Bed-sitting rooms for senior domestic staff. (5) Sitting room with wireless set and equipment for indoor games, table tennis, etc. (6) A room for the reception of guests of both sexes and cloakrooms for guests. The domestic workers' living quarters should, wherever possible, be apart from the hospital and separate from the nurses' living quarters. For non-resident staff there must be adequate toilet and cloakroom accommodation and facilities for meals or refreshments during hours of duty. 9. Staff Committees. — Hospitals should have staff committees containing a balanced representation of all grades of domestic staff. The members should be able to discuss freely amongst themselves and with the appropriate officers of the hospital any matters affecting the work and efficiency of the domestic staff or their general wellbeing and comfort, and to put forward recommendations to the Matron or other appropriate officer and, if necessary, through her to the responsible committee of the governing body. Subject to the exclusion of matters which fall for negotiation between organisations of employees and employing bodies, the committees should have a wide scope to enable the day to day problems to be dealt with. The meetings should be regular and their general aim should be one of constructive service to the hospital. Such machinery could play an important part in promoting an increased sense of co-operation between the different grades and in helping to remove any real or apparent grievances. 10. Discipline. — No unnecessary rules should be maintained and such rules as are considered necessary should be agreed by the governing body. In their off-duty hours domestic workers should have the same scope for the unrestricted use of their leisure as is accorded to any other member of the community. For example, there should be no unnecessary restrictions on smoking in their own quarters or on visits by friends of either sex. 11. Representation. — No obstacle should be placed in the way of trade unions representing their members in negotiations with the governing body or authority.
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