THE HOME HOSPITALS ASSOCIATION AND PAYING WARDS IN EXISTING HOSPITALS.

Hospitals and Nursing Home Chains

The industrialization of episodic medicine was not the original intent of the market idealists of the early 1970s who favored health maintenance organizations. Many of them regard chain hospitals and emergicenters as the antithesis of what they had in mind. They wanted corporate involvement to change the nature of health care; it seems likely, in the foreseeable future, to reproduce the defects...

Nursing Arrangements in Up-Country Hospitals and Infirmary Wards

Sir,?The question of adequate nursing arrangements m up-country hospitals, and also in the chronic wards ?* the more important institutions in large centres, is one which seems to have hardly received sufficient attention. In many cases the general attitude has been to press for a regular nursing service on European lines, and in the meantime to be content with the ordinary untrained ward atten...

Pay Hospitals *Pay Hospitals and paying wards throughout the world. Facts in support of a rearrangement of the English system of medical relief. By Henry C. Burdett, Honorary Secretary, Home Hospitals' Association for paying patients, &c. &c. London. J. & A. Churchill.

Private wards in public hospitals: two-tier charging and the allocation of resources in tertiary hospitals in Zambia

The British Hospitals Association Conference

had about three years ago with Dr. Addison, the then Minister of Health, when he found himself in a minority of one. Every other speaker advocated the complete or partial placing of the hospitals on the rates. He had the courage to assert that if hospital authorities could tide over the next three or four years, the voluntary system would re-assert itself and they could trust to the generous pu...