Hospitals - Complaints against

Date: 26 Oct 2001

From: Quaker Oral History Project

By: Fowler, Betty, 1918-2008

Reference: OHInt-0427-34

Description: Betty Fowler (nee Beszant) born Somerset, England 1918. Describes father's shoe shop in Tunbridge Wells, schooling, nursing training at Guy's Hospital for 18 months, course in Chiropody, and marriage by special licence in St Giles Church to Gerald Fowler `one hour after World War II was declared'. Describes birth of first son, David, who was born to the sounds of the guns at Dunkirk. Refers to Dr Lilian Crosskerry, a homeopathic doctor. Describes experience of husband's return from war. Mentions his work on Leptospirosis and on Trachoma in Lister Institute, London. Recalls refugee work: Spanish Civil War, Council for Refugees, German Jews, involvement in Communist League, Labour League of Youth and Peace Pledge [Union]. Mentions Miss Sykes, a Quaker, and describes work with Womens' International League for Peace and Freedom. Gives reasons for coming to New Zealand and talks about work as nurse aide in Hutt Hospital, move to Wellington Hospital, and in 1968 becoming matron of Friends School, Wanganui. Refers to headmaster, Oscar Wallis and to pupil, Miriam Loach, granddaughter of William Pulham. Discusses Lower Hutt Meeting and Wellington Meeting of Quakers. Mentions: Edward and Ruby Dowsett, Joe and Phyllis Short, Terry and Kathleen Douglas and Bill and Jean Carter. Outlines activities with Society of Friends, University of Third Age [U3A] book discussion group, Meeting for Worship. Mentions work with volunteers at Mary Potter Hospice and describes work of a volunteer. Recalls being on 1984 delegation from National Council of Churches to Russian churches, monasteries and churches, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and orphanages in Dresden. Talks about husband's (Gerald Fowler) career in public service and how he prepared for retirement with freelance book indexing. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Penelope Dunkley Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012393-012395 Quantity: 3 C62 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. 1 Interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4146.

Date: 1993

From: Clark, Laurence [Klarc] 1949- :New Zealand Herald cartoons 1 - 30 June 1993

Reference: H-065-012

Description: Shows the retreating back of Bill Birch (Damage control), who has just bound and gagged Dr Peter Troughton, who has a stethoscope around his neck. Refers to Troughton's claim, as director of the Crown Health Enterprise Establihment Unit, implementing a system of quality control, that some public hospitals are unsafe Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s).

Date: 1993

From: Tremain, Garrick fl 1970s-1990s :Editorial cartoons. 4 June - 4 August 1993

Reference: H-104-011

Description: Shows Bill Birch and Peter Troughton in a hospital admissions office. Peter Troughton has the lower part of his face covered with a scarf. Refers to Troughton's comments, as director of the Crown Health Enterprise Establishment Trust, that some hospitals are not up to standard, and to Birch's attempts to exercise damage control Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s).

Date: 2002

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DX-006-063

Description: A doctor trys to protect himself from a patients complaints. Other Titles - Surgery Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 2004

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0000676

Description: A man sits in a hospital bed reading a report in the paper that criticises hospitals for being understaffed and overcrowded. He is scornful of the report and wonders what his bedmate Brian thinks; at this point he realises that his bedmate has died. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Clark, Laurence, 1949- :Digital cartoons

By: Northern advocate (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0022827

Description: A rat in the wainscoting of an old hospital chides another for not covering his mouth as he sneezes. Context: relates to problems at Whangarei Hospital. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: [1977-2000]

From: Kidman, Fiona Judith (Dame), 1940- : Papers, photographs, ephemera and recordings

Reference: MS-Papers-7118-078

Description: Comprises notes; jury selection papers; complaints against treatment given to Ian Kidman; investiture instructions; copy of photograph of group which includes Fiona Kidman; sketch maps of Kerikeri and Hataitai, Wellington; itineraries for Kidman to Australia (1999) and to London, Europe and the US (1985); notes; greeting or song in Maori; and other papers Language - Poem, song or greeting in Maori (untranslated) Quantity: 1 folder(s).