DISTRICT NURSE SUBSIDY
MINISTER REFUSES INCREASE The North Canterbury Hospital Board had been fighting hard to bring Nurse Maude District Nursing Association staff salaries into line with other nurses’ and the association was paying such rates: but the Minister of Health (Miss M. B. Howard) had declined to approve an increase to £370 a year a nurse in the subsidy paid by the board, said the chairman (Mr V. C. Lawn) yesterday. “I think the Minister should come out in the open and say why she has turned down this proposal,” he added. The present subsidy allowed was £3lB. The board wished to pay two-thirds of the association’s increased costs. The secretary (Mr A. Prentice) said that if the association economised by reducing its staff, the general subsidy would be proportionately reduced. The board also received advice that the Minister had refused to approve a subsidy for an additional association nurse to do medico-social work at the Christchurch Hospital. Since the suggestion was made by an officer of the Health Department, the board agreed to negotiate further with the Minister.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25737, 24 February 1949, Page 3
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