$734M for hospital boards’ costs
PA Wellington The Government has allocated more than $734 million to meet hospital boards' running costs during the 1980-81 financial year, the Acting Minister of Health (Mr Thomson) announced yesterday. "Even though hospital boards are being required to accept a further reduction of 1 per cent in their base grants, the $734. million will represent an increase of some 19 per cent over the $6lB million allocated to boards during 1979-80,” Mr Thomson said. The individual allocations In ‘The Press” circulation area are:— North Canterbury Hospital Board, $86,542,621 (operating grants), $1,726,536 (minor capital grant), $88,269,157 (total); Ashburton, $5,637,815, $104,124, $5,741,939; Marlborough, $7,217,264, $122957 $7,340,221; Nelson, $21,626,048, $495,957 $22,122,005; South Canterbury, $11,607,974, $234,099, $11,842,073; West Coast
$12,567,818, $246,973, $12,814,791. The Auckland Hospital Board received the highest grant: $170,559,156. The Wellington Hospital Board received $84,841,704 and the Otago Hospital Board $49,555,484.
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