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Report of study tour of hospitals in Ireland May 21st to 31st 1956
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| Title: | Report of study tour of hospitals in Ireland May 21st to 31st 1956 |
| Authors: | International Hospital Federation (UK) |
| Publisher: | International Hospital Federation (UK) |
| Issue Date: | 1956 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10147/247478 |
| Type: | Report |
| Language: | en |
| Description: | This Report records the experiences of a patty of some some 170 members
of the International Hospital Federation and their guests who came from
fourteen countries to take pan in a Study Tour of Hospitals in Ireland.
They spent eleven days visiting hospitals and allied institutions in nine
centres, along a route which took them through some of the most beautiful
parts of a country famed for the splendour of its scenery. The programme
of the Tour had been drawn up in such a way as to enable participants
to see Ireland's newest hospitals. and in fact. of the twenty-three establishments
included. ten have been opened since 1953, while several others
have new departments or extensions recently added. This will give some
idea of the extensive programme of hospital construction which has been
undertaken in Ireland. During the past seven years. some £30 million
have been spent; building operations completed have provided some
8,000 additional hospital beds and cots. and work in progress will provide
some 1.200 further beds on completion. Plans have been made for future
extensions and the construction of several new hospitals, covering a total
of over 2,500 new beds and cots.
The hospitals visited by participants in the Study Tour range in size
from a district hospital with 35 beds to a mental hospital with 1,655 beds,
and between them serve all branches of medicine. They are described
in Chapter TV of this Report. which also contains information on the
number of patients treated. building costs and cost of treatment. Points of
particular interest in the hospitals visited are dealt with in Chapter 111, compiled
from notes supplied by a number of participants in the Tour. Their
assistance is much appreciated; the value of an international Study Tour
derives in no small measure from the fact that it enables hospital workers
to see hospitals abroad not only from their own point of view, but through
the eyes of their colleagues from other countries. It is hoped that those who
were unable to visit the hospitals of Ireland will gain useful information
from the impressions of those who did. |
| Keywords: | HOSPITALS
IRELAND |
| Appears in Collections: | Government Reports
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