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QUESTION OF FACILITIES (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Aug. 16. Commenting on the proposed stabilisation of the hospital rating, Mr J. W. Dove, president of the Hospital Boards Association, said the association had affirmed from time to time that the question of the source of hospital finance was in substance one for consideration by local contributory authorities and Parliament rather than the hospital boards. The Government proposal to stabilise the levy contemplated the same standard of treatment being made available for all persons, so that if one board did not have facilitise for certain specialist services it must be prepared to reimburse the cost to the board supplying those facilities. The proposal envisaged a greater degree of supervision over the various expenditures of boards and there was a danger that the development of facilities for treatment would suffer through the expedient of merely reducing expenditure. Boards should be allowed to develop their policy in accordance with the medical requirements in their district.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26233, 17 August 1946, Page 8
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