Help sought on benefit
PA Wellington
Doctors have decided to enlist the support of community groups in their battle for an increase in the general medical services benefit.
Meeting in Wellington this week, the Medical Association expressed frustration that the Government had failed to heed doctors’ calls for an increase in the $1.25 benefit, which has been increased only once in the last
42 years.
Dr Dean Williams, chairman of the association's council, said that the Government had seen fit to ignore the association’s concern about the benefit.
“It is a complete nonsense as it is and doctors are worried about the effect it is having on patients,” he said.
The council agreed that doctors could not go on fighting for an increase in
the benefit on their own. and decided to prepare a paper for groups such as the National Council of Women, the Plunket Society, parent centres, and unions.
The paper will outline the lack of progress on the benefit and the effect it is having on some patients. “We now need public support to leave the Government in no doubt that something must be done,” Dr Williams said.
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