Health services administration

Date: 1972

By: Callow, Norman, 1915-

Reference: MS-Papers-10315

Description: Itinerary, report on his return and various other papers connected with his Fellowship to United States and United Kingdom to study health services and administration Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and printed matter

Date: 10 Aug 1983

From: New Zealand Nursing Education and Research Foundation oral history project

By: Boyd, Elsie Anne, 1922-; Whiteman, Elaine J, active 1983

Reference: OHInt-0014/015

Description: In this interview Elsie Anne Boyd talks about: childhood, places lived in, involvement in sport; growing up during Depression (Slump); reasons for choosing nursing - father a doctor; training at Nelson Public Hospital during war years; prevalence of infectious diseases; difficulties of keeping up sporting activities while training; maternity training at Te Puke, then private nursing in Auckland and later joining staff at Greenlane Hospital; involvement in early experimentation with Cardiothoracic surgery. Other experiences included: Post Graduate Diploma (1992); WHO travelling scholarship, spending 4 months in the USA; operating theatres at Greenlane. Describes visit of Dr Helen Carpenter, a WHO nursing consultant, and her involvement taking her around. Mentions Dr Douglas Kennedy, Director General of Health. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Lower Hutt Other - limited biographical information available Interviewer(s) - Elaine J Whiteman Venue - 1 Raymond Terrace, Waterloo, Lower Hutt Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000026; OHLC-000029 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2159 (hand-written).

Date: Jan-Dec 1983 - 01 Jan 1983

From: New Zealand Nursing Education and Research Foundation oral history project

By: Boyd, Gladys Doreen, 1909-1993; Lyon, W M (Miss), active 1983

Reference: OHInt-0014/017

Description: Gladys Doreen Boyd outlines her career as a nurse, since graduating from Dunedin Hospital in 1933 and retiring in 1964. Topics discussed include: 3 weeks at preliminary school; physical culture classes held for nurses; Saturday mornings; payment of accounts by patients; salaries and conditions; care of geriatrics - Parkside Geriatric Hospital, formerly `The Benevolent'; thyroid crisis - describes research done by Otago Medical School into cause of toxic thyroid - nurses used as guinea pigs; maternity training at Bachelor Hospital Dunedin with reference to Queen Margaret Hospital and St Helen's Dunedin; work in orthopaedic ward with reference to surgeon, Major `Effie' White; work in dietary department; block system for teaching nurses - its strength and weaknesses; role played by doctors in nurses' training; revisions in nursing curriculum. Describes involvement in Nurses Association - Council member (1946-1963) and President (1948-1950); move to administration - Matron-in-chief for Otago Board. Mentions involvement with: Nurses Memorial Fund; Prisoners Aid; Red Cross; Crippled Childrens' Society; Roxburgh Children's Health Camp and Society for Home and Family. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Dunedin Other - limited biographical information available Interviewer(s) - W M Lyon Venue - 13 Wilson Avenue Dunedin and 72 Nelson Street Dunedin Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000025; OHLC-000028 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-0998 (hand-written).

Date: 14 April 1983 - 14 Apr 1983

From: New Zealand Nursing Education and Research Foundation oral history project

By: Reyburn, Sophia Mary Dorothy, 1895-1989; Shadbolt, Yvonne Telford, 1933-

Reference: OHInt-0014/138

Description: Sophia Mary Dorothy Reyburn (nee Palmer) registered as a nurse at Auckland Public Hospital 1918. Describes: arrival at nurses' home; rules and regulations; probationary period; relationship between nurses and doctors; ward sister's duty in theatre; effects of World War I; Influenza epidemic with reference to 'Niagara' and shortage of doctors and supplies - linseed poultices - facilities for nursing sick nurses and death rate and fear amongst population; nurses salaries; career after registration - theatre at Ashburton Hospital - private nursing of a tuberculosis case in the Catlins; difficulties encountered nursing patients in own homes. Discusses effect of Social Welfare on numbers of patients nursed in own homes. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Auckland Other - limited biographical information available Interviewer(s) - Yvonne Shadbolt Venue - 12/17 Upland Road, Auckland Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000095; OHLC-000080; OHLC-004214 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2180 (hand-written).

Date: 12 September 1983 - 12 Sep 1983

From: New Zealand Nursing Education and Research Foundation oral history project

By: Strang, Alma, active 1983; Mann, Eva Ruth, 1912-1997

Reference: OHInt-0014/114

Description: Mrs Eva Mann registered as a nurse in 1935. Discusses: funding of hospitals in the 1930s; experiences as a dietitian during World War II; tracing of missing hospital equipment and materials and other anecdotes of hospital life. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Timaru Other - limited biographical infor available Other - Interview with Mrs Joan McNab on side one of this tape Interviewer(s) - Mrs Alma Strang Venue - 321 Church Street, Timaru Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000106b; OHLC-000454; OHLC-004251b Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s) (side 2). 1 interview(s). 30 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.

Date: 1973

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-134-376

Description: This cartoon relates to the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Hospital Services and features a surgical theatre with the commissioners operating on Hospital Services. Minister of Health Bob Tizard is running in with a bottle labelled 'Tizard's Caucus Committee Cure-all' and a funnel and is telling them that he will be in charge from now on. 'Lodge Laughs' inscription in corner. Other Titles - Royal Commission of Inquiry Other Titles - Hospital Services Extended Title - Tizard's Caucus committee cure-all. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 284 x 398 mm

Date: 2007

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

Reference: DCDL-0004924

Description: Shows Labour and National Party leaders, Helen Clark and John Key, as birds, flying towards "Election '08". Helen Clark is challenging John Key to prove that he's not a "lame duck", but at the same time, she is losing feathers over various issues such as police culture, anti-smacking bill, corruption in prison services, and problems with the District Health Boards. On the other hand, John Key is struggling to prove that he has the ability to become the next Prime Minister in the 2008 Election. Arrangement: This cartoon file was originally delivered to the library within a sub-folder called 'MG Business', which was inside a folder called 'AWS Cartoon highlights, Nov'04-May'07' Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2001

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DX-006-007

Description: A shabbily dressed skeleton called 'Health' exits from a room named 'Dr Cullen Budget Surgery' and says, 'You're complaining! All I got was a flue shot!' The man 'Health' is talking to in the waiting room is hooked up to a drip and his called 'Education.' Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 2010

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0014630

Description: Dr Dolly's patients have been kicked outside for talking and laughing. When she ventures into the surgery she is kicked out too. They are all glad that there is a picnic table on the grass where she can continue her consultations. Published in NZ Doctor Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2001

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DX-006-005

Description: A Frankinstein type creature called 'Health' walks forward with arm outstretched toward two fleeing women. One is Helen Clark who says, 'The trick is to sedate him long enough to operate, Annette!'. The other is Annette King who carries various saws and a large needle called DHB's (District Health Board's). Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 2010

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0014521

Description: Dr Dolly opens the surgery door to invite her next patient in, only to find the waiting room empty. When she asks where the patients are the practice manager scowls and says they are outside. Dr Dolly has to go outside to retrieve her patient - she wonders if the practice manager is having a bad day. Published in NZ Doctor Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

By: New Zealand doctor (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0026467

Description: A woman types a letter to the editor complaining about unmown berms and advocating better integration of district health boards. While typing she tells herself 'If a Kiwi can win the Man Booker Prize, imagine what I can do with the rich tapestry of life paraded before me every day! Insightful, fascinating, uncompromising yet deep...there! Sent!' Refers to Eleanor Catton winning the Man Booker Prize with her novel 'Luminaries'. Catton's example may make a writer on the most pedestian and local subjects feel that their writing too may be famous. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).