Bulk Drug Scheme
(N Z Press Association) WELLINGTON, July 7. The Health Department’s bulk drug-purchasing scheme may involve unnecessary handling, packing, transport, and recording costs, according to a health economist, Miss K. M. Christie. But a thorough study of the scheme will be necessary before a proper evaluation can be made, she says in her cost-benefit analysis of drugs in mental hospitals. Bulk purchasing is at present done by hospitals at sixmonth intervals. There are disadvantages in the holding of stocks in excess of current requirements in hospital dispensaries, and in the role of the Health Department as a “middle man” between the supplying comnany and the hospital. Miss Christie says.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31725, 8 July 1968, Page 20
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111Bulk Drug Scheme Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31725, 8 July 1968, Page 20
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