INCREASING COST
Prescriptions At Hospitals The cost of dispensing “hos-pital-only” prescriptions was “huge and increasing,” the North Canterbury Hospital Board was told yesterday. Coipes of the board’s staff circulars, indicating positive measures proposed to cut down hospital spending, had been sent to the Health Department. “At the same time the department’s attention has been drawn to the already huge and increasing cost to the board of dispensing ‘hospital-only’ prescriptions,” said the finance committee’s report. The establishment of a committee of departmental heads to make further suggestions regarding saving was being considered.
A request for a survey of hospital spending by a firm of industrial consultants had been deferred, pending advice from the Health Department.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31177, 29 September 1966, Page 11
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