SOCIAL SECURITY PRACTICE: ADVISORY COMMITTEE SET UP

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 October 1947, Page 9

SOCIAL SECURITY PRACTICE: ADVISORY COMMITTEE SET UP

(P.A.) WELLINGTON, October 23. The revision of the existing arrangement between doctors and the State in the working of the social security scheme is foreshadowed by the appointment of a medical services committee to advise the Government on what alterations might be necessary to the scheme to give full effect to Government policy. “The committee, which will begin its sittings next month, has the responsibility of examining generally and conferring upon the provisions of part 3 of the Social Security Act, 1938, affecting the services of medical practitioners,” said the Minister of Health (Miss M. B. Howard) today. “The alterations it may make should be those which might be necessary to give full effect to the Government’s policy of making available adequate and proper medical services, general and specialist, free or substantially free of cost. “A non-medical man will be chairman of the committee. He is Mr T. P. Cleary, a barrister and solicitor, of Wellington. The three representatives of the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Associatio'h ’will be Dr H. F. Buist, of Hawera, Dr D. S. Wylie, of Palmerston North, and Dr E. D. Pullon, of Christchurch. “The other three members of the committee will be representatives of the Department of Health. Their name's will be announced later.”