Patients to go south?
The Minister of Health (Mr Gair) expects North Canterbury doctors to refer more of their patients south rather than north, now that the facts of the Dunedin Cardiac Surgery Unit “have been established.” However, the Minister said he would be most reluctant to direct that Christchurch patients had to be sent south. This had been suggested by the member of Parliament for Dunedin North (Mr S. J. Rodger). The question of referrals was more properly a matter between the doctors and hospital boards concerned, Mr Gair said. It was obviously in the best interests of people in any place in New Zealand to see that the waiting lists at the cardiac surgery units were not inflated artificially.
Parliamentary reporter
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