EIRST OFFER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 101, 2 May 1939, Page 11

EIRST OFFER.

DOCTORS , SERVICE.

MATERNITY BENEFITS PLAN.

ALTERATIONS SUGGESTED,

i By Tclrurnph.—Own Corrpxpondpnt.) WHANOARKr, this day. Thiil f hK representative mooting of \. i-111 hi lid medical pnutitioners is not !,, r.-ivi.ur <•< all (lie terms and conditions ~l ruiilnnl under the maternity benefits .■. iii.it- of. I lu- S.ici.il Security Act, l>ut v ■■> lld 111' Williir.' til accept McrvicO Bill)I. to *»cvernl pro\ isions." Th« m»nc rr-i.iliii inn was i-nrrled ■mi iniii]oiif-l\ Ml a ini'i'tii'jf of practitioii- , . , in Hi" North held at the Wlunißarei Il.i-|ii!:il w hen (In, tor-: from all parts of

1 n .iri'ti wen) present. The meeting is believed to lie the first i i its kind yet held in .New Zealand to i.ll'iT co (ipei'iit ion and eoiixtrnct ive modil.iTitioii iii regard to the terms of coni id. recently iinuoitneert by the Hon. I'. Kraser. \'h(\ condition* under which service vvm Id lie nrcepteu iiicl ide a. proviso that I lie piw-l nn 1,-i I Irealmciil period required f..r the L< fee choiiM lie limited to II (la_\s Ironi the dnto rif birth of tho ihild, irrc.-peet i\ o of ulial. complicai inns nii'jht arise. Treatment required .it'ter Ihe expiration of (he 14 days' post n.ilal period, il is .should Iμ- ron.-ideied outsid,'. tlie terms of the > ■•llt.llKl.

The fee for nii:ir-lhrti-f nnsi-lnnt or i'mii«iill.iiil piMi-til inner, il i-i thought, -linnhl lie |..iiil out of the -ocial security I'mihl. I'i o\ i-inii -|i<illlil lie iiiiide for payment nf up to £."• (in iiihlilion to the t> nll'iwcill in a case wliere eondit ioiMi i■ -■ 11liro more Minn iin average timount nf iinlc nntal or post-natal lit lent ion by more than one pi net il inner, Thi-i £•"> is. «,ili«l'iie(iiry if paid to one practitioner, hut is iiol sa'.i-faetory if divided among I \w> or more practitioners giving partinl

■ 'Tvlrei in cases requiring many anteii.itnl or |>o«it -natnl treatments. It in ;i!<n requested th.it the. sum of ■%/ per I'iile in respect of milcngo fees bo sub- -■ 11 uted for 2/d per mile. I'lio IliectillfT conteiided tllilt tlio mile,i .i> fee of '.J/li per milo one way did i. I lompensiito for travelling time, i -|i'cially over back blocks r<.ads, and iii.it the larger payment womd eompen- - iio for thin time and for the 'J I hours I■ !' (hiy Hi'veii dnys per week, during ' i'h a priietitoner is expected to bo on .-.ill.