Annual report : 1946 / Royal Victoria and West Hants Hospital.

  • Royal Victoria and West Hants Hospital (Bournemouth, England)
Date:
1946
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report : 1946 / Royal Victoria and West Hants Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A scheme has been prepared to build a temporary ward of 32 beds in the grounds of our Hospital at Shelley Road, and permission and licences have now been obtained from the Ministry of Health for the work to proceed. It is hoped to complete this addition during the next six months. Additional accommodation is also required for the Rehabilita¬ tion Department, and two hutted extensions will be situated adjacent the existing premises in Shelley Road, which will allow for expansion of the work and dealing with a greater number of patients. Approval has also been obtained for hutted extensions to give more room for our Teaching School for the Student Nurses, also for more sleeping accommodation and a recreation room for members of the Domestic Staff. All these additions have meant much consideration and planning in these days of restrictions in supply of materials and labour. The cost of all the additions is approximately £17,000 and your Board is pleased to report this sum is available from a fund which has been accumulated from generous legacies received dur¬ ing the past years. Finance. The total Ordinary Income received during the year was £95,806, a decrease of £7,672. This is mainly accounted for by reduced grants from the Government under the Emergency Medical Service. The total Ordinary Expenditure for the year, amounting fo £135,444, was an increase of £26,937, and exceeded the Total income by £39,638. The increases are spread over most of items of expenditure, the largest amounts being Surgery and Dispensary £7,750, Domestic £3,893, Salaries and Wages £11,962. Against the additional expenditure on Nursing Salaries must be set the State Grant received during the year amounting to £4,015. After using all available legacies the Maintenance Account has been balanced by a transfer from the other reserve Accounts of £25,322. The average cost per patient per day was 19/2.55 as com¬ pared with 14/9.04 in 1945, and the average cost per Out-Patient attendance 2/6.2 against 2/2.3 the previous year.
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