MATERNITY BENEFITS
DOCTORS' ATTITUDE
AGREEMENT REPORTED
It is understood on reliable authority that the medical profession has approved, through the medium of a ballot, of acceptance of contracts for I maternity services under the Social Security Act. This means that doctors and maternity hospitals throughout the Dominion are completely cooperating in this phase of social security benefits. To ensure general adoption of the contracts the Government," it is stated, is to be approached by the medical profession to legislate making the contracts it has suggested 'binding on all practitioners who normally undertake this work.
The effect will be that all mothers desiring State assistance have' the right to that assistance, though others who refuse to take the benefit can make independent arrangements.
This development does not, however, dispose of the large question still at issue between the British Medical Association and the Government over the inauguration of a universal practitioner service.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 36, 11 August 1939, Page 10
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