Doctors lower fees
Some Christchurch general practitioners have lowered their fees after recent publicity on increases since the lifting of the price freeze.
The assistant regional director of commerce with the Trade and Industry Department. Miss Claire Tucker, said yesterday that some city doctors who had raised their fees by J2 or ?3 had brought the increase
back to $1
More than 200 of the 290 questionnaires sent to city doctors before Easter had been returned to the department, said Miss Tucker.
There were still quite a few doctors who had not increased their fees, and some had notified the department of a reduction in their original fee increase. The national president of the Royal New Zealand Col-
lege of General Practitioners, Dr Selwyn Carson, said yesterday that he thought most doctors were “trying to be reasonable.”
The department’s office in Christchurch has begun surveys of general practitioners in Nelson. Marlborough, the West Coast and Timaru. Miss Tucker said that it was too early to tell what type of increases had taken place in those areas.
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