GOOD RESPONSE

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 108, 9 May 1941, Page 6

GOOD RESPONSE

DOMINION CHEMISTS

PHARMACEUTIC* L BENEFITS

(P.A.) WELLINGTON. Thursday

The response by the chemists to the scheme of social securitypharmaceutical benefits since they were first made available on May 5 was outlined by the Minister" of Health, the Hpn. A. H. Nordmeyer in an interview to-night. He said it appeared froiri preliminary returns that the vast majority of chemists in the Dominion were operating the benefits, and prepared to accept contracts under the scheme. Inquiries had been made by some chemist* about certain features of contracts, and it was anticipated that practically the whole of the chemists would accept within the next week. Replying to an inquiry whether the Government intended "to exclude all proprietary drugs permanently the Minister stated that investigations were already being made into certain proprietary lines, and where these had no British pharmacopoeia equivalent, it was likely they would be added to the free list. The public however, should know that some proprietary lines were simply expensive forms of a simple combination of, drugs which a doctor may prescribe secure free.