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To meet this requirement of 27,495 beds would mean
the addition of 7,380 beds over and above those already identified
in paragraph 7.4, or in other words, providing about the same
number of additional hospital beds as the 7,596 which are at
present available in Government hospitals (including temporary
and substandard beds). As the MDAC indicated, the full achievement
of this target by 1982 would impose unacceptable strains on the
building industry and would be likely to exceed the ability of
the Government to finance or staff the institutions that would be
necessary. This assessment is entirely accepted by the Government.
It has therefore been necessary to consider closely the priorities
to be observed in determining new hospital projects.
7.9
In this process it has proved necessary to take account
of the need
(a)
to provide additional beds for general specialties
and for psychiatric cases, in which the major
shortfalls are expected to occur;
(b) to improve provision for other specialties and in
(c)
(a)
particular to add more separate specialist provision
for geriatric cases;
to reflect the distribution of population and the
development of the new towns;
to concentrate on the establishment of a geographically
based system of general hospitals-containing a balance
of specialist services at district and regional level;
G.F. 323
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