Wanting Doctors Back From N.Z.
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, April 12. Ways of persuading doctors who have emigrated to Australia, New Zealand and other countries to return to Britain are to be' discussed soon by medical authorities, the “Sunday Telegraph” said yesterday.
The issue is likely to be raised this month when members of the Medical Practitioners’ Union meet in Birmingham. Other groups of doctors are expected to put forward suggestions to meet the problem. The ratio of general practitioners to patients in Britain reached its peak of 438 doctors per million patients in 1961. But by 1964 it was down again to the previous low level in 1956 of 428 per million patients.
A British Medical Association spokesman said last night: “We have urged medical schools to increase their intake of students, and this
they have done. But this is only a long-term remedy." Many doctors feel that unless the problem of recruiting more medical practitioners is not settled speedily, the Government’s national health scheme will be in danger of collapse.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30724, 13 April 1965, Page 17
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Wanting Doctors Back From N.Z.
Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30724, 13 April 1965, Page 17
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