MEDICAL BENEFITS
With Doctors
Next Month
PROPOSALS PREPARED
A stai.ejnent that the conference with the British Medical Association to discuss plans for tlie introduction of the general practitioner scheme under Part 3 of the Social Security Act woul'd be held early next .month, was made yesterday by the Minister of Health, Mr. Armstrong. Propestils have been prepared for submission to the association. Mr. Armstrong said that: the full personnel of the Government, representation at the conference had not been arranged. As Minister of Health, he would attend, and be would be supported by chiefs of tlie Health Department.
"Is it a fact that only six doctors in New Zealand have contracted out of the maternity benefit plan, these being doctors who have specialist practices and who are not desirous of undertaking maternity eases?” was a question put to the Minister. He replied that only a few doctors—he did not know the exact numlier —had contracted out of the scheme. 'They were practitioners who were not desirous of engaging in maternity practice.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 280, 21 August 1940, Page 8
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