NUMBER OF DOCTORS
Parliamentary Reporter WELLINGTON, this day. He did not anticipate that there would be an immediate substantial improvement in the number of doctors practising in New Zealand, said the Minister of Health, Mr. Nordmeyer, in the House of Representatives yesterday afternoon during the discussion of the Health Department's estimates. He said that many of the doctors who were in the services would want to take post-graduate courses and every encouragement to do so was being ctiven to them by the Rehabilitation Department. In reply to Mr. Acland (Nat., Temuka), who asked how many doctors were at present practising in New Zealand, the Minister said there were 865 doctors paid from the social security funds last year. In addition there were 200 doctors on the full-time staffs of hospitals. It was estimated there were somewhere in the vicinity of 1100 doctors who were actually practising in the Dominion.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 237, 6 October 1945, Page 7
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