Annual report : 1948/49 / Wigan and Leigh Hospital Management Committee.

  • Wigan and Leigh Hospital Management Committee.
Date:
1949
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Credit: Annual report : 1948/49 / Wigan and Leigh Hospital Management Committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    17/44 (page 13)
    Hospital and Clinic. House Committee No. 4 ...Whelley and Pemberton Hospitals, Ashton- in-Makerfield Hospital, and Millgate and Mesnes Park Terrace Chest Clinics. House Committee No. 5 ...Astley Hospital. House Committee No. 6 ...Atherleigh Hospital. 30. These Committees were set up for a period of six months in the first instance and have since been extended for further terms of six months. Advisory Committees. 31. Advisory Committees have been appointed to advise the Hospital Management Committee on matters relating to the Medical and Nursing Services. The Medical Advisory Committee embraces the medical personnel of all the hospitals and clinics in the group, whilst separate Medical Boards are also established in respect of Wigan Infirmary and Leigh Infirmary. These latter medical boards are composed of senior medical staff at those hospitals, and their existence is more or less a con¬ tinuation of the practice which was in operation prior to the appointed day, i.e., 5th July, 1948. Nursing services are dealt with by a Matrons’ Com¬ mittee which is composed of all the Matrons at Hospitals in the group. The function of these Advisory Committees is to give personnel engaged in the respective branches of the hospital services an opportunity to meet together and discuss their various problems and to bring to notice any matters requiring the attention of the Hospital Management Committee together with their recommendations for appropriate action. In the same way, any matters dealing with these specialist branches of the service need¬ ing consideration, are referred to the appropriate Advisory Committee for observations and recommendations. The proceedings of all the Advisory Committees are submitted to the meetings of the Hospital Manage¬ ment Committee. Early Tasks of the Hospital Management Committee. 32. One of the first tasks facing the Committee was the prepara¬ tion of a budget to cover the financial needs of the services for which it was responsible. All Hospital Management Committees were required to submit, early in September, 1948, a comprehensive estimate of expenditure anticipated by them during the year commencing 1st April, 1949, and these estimates were, therefore, to be completed little more than two months after the hospitals had been taken over. 33. This was no small task since, generally speaking, only the former Local Authority hospitals had followed the practice of preparing annual budgets, and although the figures prepared for Wigan and Leigh, at such short notice and with so little time for detailed consideration, were not, perhaps, so accurate as would normally be expected, they have in most instances proved adequate for the needs of the hospitals so far. The Local Authorities who had previously administered the Astley and Atherleigh Hospitals and the Billinge, Whelley and Pemberton Hospitals, co-operated very fully in this work and their assistance was greatly appreciated.