Funds demanded
| The Canterbury; Hospital Board will “demand” the Government' funding tb which it I is; entitled Under the equitable funding scheme, ; the board decided yesterday. | The 'chairman of the board’s finance committee, Mr David | Lawrence, that under the latest founding formula; calculations the board was tinder-funded I I $14.9 million or 6.4! per cent of its current allocation. | “We must demand that we receive our share tb bring us up,; if not immediately then ; in the
short term, to a ably funded board.” ; ; ! The board has been told many times ( that there was' no more money ( available from jthei Vote] Health, allocation' 'but there was gpwth .money available, said Mr; Lawrence. “I don’t think there is any question that w[e. must not ask for or plead! for but dema!nd what is ;our fair share] of that growth.” If the i board did (not make demands) it would not receive anything ; but criticism from (staff and patients, he said. ;
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