The site of a hospital needs careful consideration. More and more people now agree that a hospital should, wherever possible, be part of the community it serves. This makes for the convenience of patients, particularly outpatients, and eases staff recruitment. Whilst it may be necessary to serve small communities by peripheral separate out-patient departments, in general, in-patient and out-patient buildings should be on the same site. It is not, however, always practicable to build extensively in a town or city, and it is difficult to make provision for expansion. The actual design of a hospital is also of great importance. Medicine is ever changing, and it is difficult to forecast changes that lie ahead. Doctors invariably call for flexibility in planning, which is really only practicable if hospital construction is on ground-floor level and if the wards and the special investigatory departments are so designed that they can be readily extended.
Clearly, the writer of the passage believes that, ideally, a hospital should ___.
be designed carefully so that no changes will be needed in the future
have a series of separate, peripheral out-patient departments
concentrate either on out-patient departments or on in-patient ones, but not both
be small and serve quite a small community
be situated within easy distance of the people who come to it for treatment
We understand from the passage that one problem of building a hospital within a town is that ___.
there are likely to be constant changes in the staff
it will very likely be impossible to make any additions to it at a later date
there will be more patients than the doctors will be able to cope with
the size necessary to treat so many patients makes administration extremely complex
it is usually impossible to have an out-patient department
It is pointed out in the passage that the flexibility that the medical profession looks for in a hospital building ___.
has to be planned in accordance with the changes that are forecast for the future
is an unnecessary luxury
can be provided easily and inexpensively
is really only feasible in single-storey constructions
largely concerns the size of the wards that are favoured