CO-OPERATING.
DOCTORS' BALLOT.
MATERNITY SERVICES
CONTRACTS ACCEPTED
WIDER ISSUE UNSETTLED. (By ToIo?r:i I'll. — Parliamentary Reporter.) WKIXiM iTON. tin* day. Tlu- medical profo-ion has approved throuirh tlit' medium of a ballot the acceptance of contract.- for maternity service-* under the social security legislate m. Nil ollicial iuformatiiiti i< available. 1 iut thi- important development lias not lieeli kept -ecret. It mean- that both doctors and maternity hospitals throughout the Dominiiin are completely co-opcrat injr in this pliase of social -security lienelit. and to en.-ure general adoption of contracts the <lovernment ha-s been approached by the profession to legislate makiiiL;' the contracts binding on all practitioner- who normally undertake this work. Tile effect "ill be that all mothers desiring State a-si-tance have this riuht. though others refusing to lake the benelit can make independent an a s. Tlii- satisfactory development docs not. however, dispose of the larpe (|iiestion. still lit. issue between the Rritish Medical Association and the (toverunient. over the inautnirntioji of a universal practitioner service.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 188, 11 August 1939, Page 8
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165CO-OPERATING. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 188, 11 August 1939, Page 8
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