Doctors To Be Forced To Comply With Law, Says Premier
CANBERRA, Mar. 4. The Prime Minister, Mr. J. B. Chifley, told the Federal Parliamentary Labour Party that the Government would not withdraw or lie down ori the medical benefits or free medicine schemes. He added that the Government would insist on the doctors doing a fair thing for the people of Australia. The same conflict had arisen in Great Britain and elsewhere.. The Pharmaceutical Benefits Act would be amended so that the Government would have power to make regulation's necessary to ensure compliance with the Act. The main regulation required was one to provide that the doctors, when prescribing .proprietary medicines such as insulin, wrote the prescription on a Government form.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22887, 5 March 1949, Page 7
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