Doctors ‘should be happy’
PA Greymouth Dr Barry Dallas, Mayor of Greymouth and a general practitioner, believes doctors should be happy with the Government’s offer on the General Medical Services benefit for child patients. Under the new scheme, parents pay $2.50 for a child’s visit to a doctor, where a doctor agrees to such a ceiling for a routine consultation. For doctors who agree to the ceiling, the child G.M.S. will double to $9.50 in February. Doctors have the right to opt out of the scheme, in which case they will get no G.M.S. benefit for any of their child patients. Dr Dallas said yesterday that he believed some doctors were overreacting to the Government measure. “We are not demi-gods, we are tradesmen, and this looks to me to be a fair offer,” he said. “I am not scared of the principles involved, and I think doctors should be happy to take up the offer.”
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