Doctors Still Refuse to Co-operate
WARNING TO HEALTH MINISTER Per Association. WELLINGTON, Jan. 6. The statement of the Minister of Health (Hon. H. T. Armstrong) regarding the preparations being made to introduce the general practitioner benefit was referred to Mr. J. T. S. Jamieson, chairman of the National Health Insurance Committee of the New Zealand branch of the British Aledicai Association, by telephone to Nelson tonight. Dr. Jamieson made the following comment: “The Government will be well advised not to make commitments at present for the engagement of staff, provision of premises, etc., in preparation tor the working of the general practitioner service contract. The doctors are not undertaking any change of this kind in the system of medical practice for at least the continuance of the war and until after demobilisation. Those immediate preparations mentioned by the Minister of Health are therefore unnecessary and wasteful in the present circumstances.
“Organisations having their own special contracts with medical practitioners are recommended to continue those for the likelihood of satisfactory replacements of the present medical officers is exceedingly remote. “
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 5, 7 January 1941, Page 4
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