Hospital closures

Date: 11 Nov 1989

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Pigney, Ray, active 1988

Reference: EP/1989/4141

Description: Scenes during a protest against the closure of Elderslea Maternity Hospital in Upper Hutt, 11 November 1989. Shows demonstrators with banners; a close up view of a woman speaking during the protest; a wider view of the same woman speaking, showing other protesters. Photographs taken by Evening Post staff photographer Ray Pigney. Quantity: 2 b&w original negative(s) strips with 6 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 12 February 1991 - 12 Feb 1991

From: Neonatal Nursing Oral History Project

By: Nightingale, Anne Therese, 1932-

Reference: OHInt-0131/05

Description: Anne Nightingale describes family background, education and nursing training, midwifery education in New Zealand, professional association activities, transfer of nursing education from Health to Education, international connections with other registration boards, St Helen's Hospital, philosophy, standards, neonatal nursing courses, the Maternity Task Force in 1989, closure of St Helen's Hospital, design of neonatal intensive care units and postnatal ward upgrading. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Auckland Interviewer(s) - Penelope A Dunkley Venue - National Women's Hospital, Auckland Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004638-004639 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-0799.

Date: 23 January 1991 - 23 Jan 1991

From: Neonatal Nursing Oral History Project

By: Cooper, Dorothy Hilda, 1945-

Reference: OHInt-0131/01

Description: Dorothy Hilda Cooper born Gisborne. Talks about choice of career and explains that there was little choice for women. Outlines her working career, starting as a nurse aid at Cook Hospital at the age of 17 years and continuing on to general training for 3 years. Describes work experience at St Helen's Hospital, Auckland; Gisborne Maternity Hospital; National Women's Hospital, Auckland; School of Advanced Nursing Studies Wellington in 1975, getting a Diploma of Nursing and return to National Women's Hospital. Discusses Neonatal Nursing Course. Describes closure of St Helen's Hospital, Auckland and ward 11A National Women's Hospital plus logistics, opening of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), opening of Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU). Gives details of shift from St Helen's Hospital to Women's National, describing newborn transport and responsiblity for safe moving. Outlines home care service. Talks about experience on medical team to China in 1988. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Auckland Interviewer(s) - Penelope A Dunkley Venue - 55 Caronia Cres. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004597-004599; OHLC-001645-001687 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-0795.

Date: 14 February 1991 - 14 Feb 1991

From: Neonatal Nursing Oral History Project

Reference: OHInt-0131/17

Description: Beatrice Dorothy Mudgway describes family background and childhood, acquiring Diploma in Dress Design, training in maternity nursing, Bethany Hospital, midwifery training, experiences at Westland Hospital, neonatal courses, travel to England and work as domiciliary midwife. Recalls return to New Zealand, tour of neonatal units in North America, return to St Helen's Hospital and its closure, work at National Women's Hospital and future of neonatology. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Auckland Interviewer(s) - Penelope A Dunkley Venue - Auckland Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004647-004648 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-0811.

Date: 1994

From: Tremain, Garrick fl 1970s-1990s :Editorial cartoons. 23 March - 14 June 1994

Reference: H-106-060

Description: Shows an elderly couple at a kitchen table. The wife is reading her husband's horoscope. Refers to lengthening hospital waiting lists and to the closure of small hospitals. Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s).

Date: [ca 22 November 1950]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/227/02-G

Description: Matron M M Mackie with four year old Wayne Hastings and his mother, Mrs J R Hastings leaving Hobson Street Hospital before it closed. Wayne was the last patient to leave the hospital. Photographed circa 22 November 1950 by an Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: 2011

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0017310

Description: An elderly couple out for a walk stop outside the 'Lakes District Hospital' to read a large 'For Sale' sign. The sign reads 'Valuable Queenstown Property - vacant possession, all proceeds to God knows where. Contact R & R Realty Ryall & Rousseau "Flogging off your property".' The man comments 'Asset sales are under way then!' and the woman says 'By fair means or foul!' Context - There will be no hospital in Queenstown. Queenstown's Remarkables Park Ltd and the Queenstown Medical Centre have announced they are going ahead with multimillion-dollar plans for an integrated medical services facility on a site at Remarkables Park zoned for Hospitals and Healthcare Services. The move was in line with a Government policy of providing better, quicker and more convenient healthcare, and was supported by Health Minister Tony Ryall according to Mr Rousseau, chair of the Southern District Health Board. Hospital grade care would be available at the medical centre but urgent cases would be stabilised then sent on to larger regional hospitals - which is the system in place at the moment. (Southland Times 4 March 2011) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: [ca 22 November 1950]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/227/01-G

Description: Two nurses with four year old Wayne Hastings and his mother Mrs J R Hastings being farewelled from the Hobson Street Hospital before it closed. Wayne was the last patient to leave the hospital. Photographed circa 22 November 1950 by an Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches