This second conference was presented with very definite and deliberately chosen terms of reference to form the basis of the papers and discussions. These were: 1) in the changing context of hospital administration what are the most important problems of today?; 2) how are these problems being dealt with and ...
This conference was convened to consider and discuss the hospital services, their organisation and scope with special reference to methods of administration. From each country was presented a paper written by the representative of that country dealing in fairly general terms with the principal features of its acute hospital service.
The first paper from the conference discusses the health system of Sweden, considers how the rising costs of hospital care and shortage of medical personnel and especially doctors and nurses have focused the interest of the responsible medical and political bodies on rational hospital planning and organisation. The second paper ...