Free Meals For House Surgeons
(From Our Own Reporter) WELLINGTON, April 12. Hospital boards may continue to provide free meals for house surgeons, senior medical officers and hospital registrars when they are required to remain within hospitals over meal hours, the Cabinet has decided.
It has also agreed that the charge of £4 a week made to junior medical officers provided with board and lodging may include defined cleaning services.
Announcing these decisions tonight, the Minister -of Health (Mr McKay) said hospital boards would be notified immediately of the changes. He said the Cabinet had reviewed the. draft hospital regulations after hearing representations by the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association on behalf of the House Surgeons' Association, the New Zealand Medical Superintendents’ Association and the chairman of the New Zealand Hospital Boards' Association. “These organisations stressed that they were con-
cerned about the effect of the draft regulations on junior medical staff only.” Mr McKay said. “The current provisions concerning accommodation. meals and services have been carefully reviewed and the changes made after consideration of the many factors affecting the employment of junior hospital medical staff.”
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30724, 13 April 1965, Page 1
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Free Meals For House Surgeons
Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30724, 13 April 1965, Page 1
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