HONORARY DOCTORS

Grey River Argus, 25 August 1939, Page 9

HONORARY DOCTORS

TO BE PAID. CHRISTCHURCH. August 24. Honorary visiting medical staffs at pubi c hospitals are in future to receive remuneration. Agreement on the li.usis <n the new system was reached at a conference in Wellington between doctors and representatives of llhe Hospital Bonds’ Association. I The North Canterbury Board yesterday received details of the agreement, and it was reported Chat the honorary staff was ready now to negotiate for the part-time stipend-) jury staffing of the hospital on the basis of the agreement reached by the conference In Wellington. | The board decided to instruct the staff executive to obtain proposals' from the honorary staff and submit them to the hospital committee. In a circular letter to boards received from the Hospitals Board’s Association, a statement made by Dr. T. D. M. Stout, one of the British Medical Association’s representatives at the conference, was quoted. 1 Dr. Stout said that in the past the' policy in the matter of the medical staffing of hospitals had not crystallised, and consequently anomalous conditions had arisen to the detriment of medical work in the hospitals, and there had been a feeling of uncertainty in the minds of members of the medical staffs. He claimed that a new epoch in hospital conditions and < efficiency in medical work should be the result of the important decisions arrived at by the conference. i