Medical Service Study In Aust.

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31345, 15 April 1967, Page 19

Medical Service Study In Aust.

<V.t. Prt— Afociatton) AUCKLAND, April 18. The Medical Association of New Zealand may advocate a compromise between the present medical health service here and the type of non-profit-making insurance scheme that exists in Australia. The ehatnnan of the association, Dr. L. F. Brown, of Auckland, and the association’s general secretary, Mr G. A. Lee, of Wellington, have just returned from a fact-find-ing risk to New South Wales, where, along with other aspects of they Observed the operation of the Medical Benefit Fund Oi<aDtoPion« The Medieel Benetit Fund existed in Ml Australian states, Dr. Brown mid today, It differed slightly from state to state. “We were merely concerned in finding out how it worked, not in setting the idea to Naw Zeeland,” he said. "But the non-profit-making

insurance organisation covers certain aspects of medical service ' not deal with in New Zealand.”

Suggestion for improvements in the medical services in New Zealand will be incorporated in a review sponsored by the medical association and which will be published in booklet form later this year.

“Our intention is to make public our view in the hope of creating change in many spheres of medicine,” Dr. Brown said.