CANADIAN DOCTOR
Study Of Health Services
Dr. K. C. Charron, director of health services in the Department of National Health and Welfare in Ottawa, Canada, spent the day in Christchurch yesterday in the course of a New Zealand tour studying health services. He met and conferred with the medical superintendent of the Christchurch Hospital (Dr. T. Morton) and the secretary of the North Canterbury Hospital Board (Mr J. G. Laurenson), obtaining information on hospital arrangements in Christchurch and the North Canterbury area.
Aspects of health services being studied by Dr. Charron include the Social Security scheme, the relationship between personal health services and the public health programme, arrangements in hospital medical research, and programmes set up for the training of post-graduate students doctors, dentists, and nurses.
Dr. Charron will make a similar detailed study of health services in Australia, to which he will travel after leaving New Zealand on
Today, Dr. Charron will travel to Dunedin, where he will visit the Otago University medical and dental schools.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29469, 22 March 1961, Page 16
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